Hinanarut4ever: No, Naruto does not like Sakura; he see's her only as a friend not a very good one at that. The only girl in our Naruto's heart is Hinata.
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Chapter 11: The Threat
I go over to Kiba who seems the most upset about what Naruto said.
"Hey Kiba, is it okay if I sit?" I ask him, he grunts so I take that as a yes, and sit. "I'm sorry about what Naruto said, I don't think you have dog breath," I say to him, he gives me a smile.
"Thanks," he tells me as he watches his puppy run around.
"He wasn't trying to be mean, he's just a dork, that never knows when not to butt in," I say. "I'm really glad we are on the same team and I hope the five of us will work good together."
"Five?" he asks me confused, I nod and smile at him.
"Yes, our team consists of: the Jonin leader, Shino, you, Akamaru and me." He looks at me really happy that I would include Akamaru in our team.
"Yeah, I know we'll do good, right Akamaru?" Akamaru stops playing to bark then he continued to play.
"I should go find Shino and apologize," I tell Kiba as I was about to get up.
"He left to his house to get something he told me that he'll return on time," Kiba informs me.
"Did he seem mad?" I ask Kiba a bit worried.
"I couldn't tell," I sigh as I relax my shoulders.
"So he isn't mad or else he would've mentioned something."
I stayed with Kiba and Akamaru, I did not want to go back with Naruto or Sasuke, I want them to get used to me not being around.
I really hope my plan works.
I hate lying to Iruka Sensei but, I had nothing else left.
Plus technically, father, did say I could be the Hyuga heiress but, I refused. Next time if he offers it to me again then I'll accept, even if it means I lose the freedom, I have. I have to do the necessary changes to our clan in order for it survive and grow into something more or else we will be destroyed much like the Uchiha.
I will not let that happen!
A few days after we got assigned our Jonin leader were we able to have our talk with Shino and Kiba.
I look the two over wondering if they will be able to protect her. First I look at Shino he's someone I wouldn't mind fighting there's more to him then meets the eye. I look over at Kiba he is confident but annoying and not as much talent as he brags about.
Shino is just standing there and I think he's looking at me, Kiba is standing tall like always.
"I want you guys to know something what I' am about to tell you is not useful information but a threat. You guys better protect Hinata with your lives or else," I tell them.
"Yeah, what the loser Sasuke said! You better protect her! If she returns from a mission with even a little scratch on her pretty skin then you better not plan on return to the village or else," Naruto yells.
"What will you do Failure?" Kiba taunts Naruto.
"I'll hurt you!" Naruto tells him.
"I'll kill you," I tell Kiba quietly, as if it's nothing to kill. I look directly in his eyes and when he finally understands he turns away from me. Then I look over at Shino he never looks away but he stays silent as he starts walking away from us. "Shino I'm not joking around," I warn him.
"I know Sasuke," he says then he turns around to face me. "She doesn't have to be protected," he says to us.
"What do you mean, of course she does!" Naruto yells I stay quiet waiting for him to continue.
"She is strong enough to protect herself. She does not need us," he says. I snicker as I walk away only to see Hinata coming over to us.
"Shit!" I say.
"What?" Naruto asks me.
"Hinata is here," I tell him as his eyes widen looking for her.
"She's going to be pissed because of you!" Naruto tells me lowering his voice.
"What about you?" I ask him forgetting all about Hinata for the time being.
"I' am just an innocent accomplice," he says to me with a grin.
"Since when is an accomplice considered innocent?" I ask him irritated at myself for asking him.
"Since now!" he tells me. I was about to continue but I was cut off.
"What are you two doing here? Shouldn't you be with the Hokage to receive your mission?" she asks us.
"It's none of your business," I say to her as I begin to walk away until I feel her pinch my upper right arm. "Oww…what was that for?" I ask her as I start to rub the place she pinched.
"For being a jerk! Of course it's my business dumbass! You are talking to my team!" she says.
"No, we are your team," Naruto says she turns to look at him and tells him.
"No, Naruto, I' am not on your team anymore, I never was. My only team is made up with: Shino, Kiba, Kurenai Sensei and Akamaru."
"What do you mean, Hinata?" Naruto asks her sounding sad but I just look at her thinking and feeling the same way as Naruto.
"I mean that we are not playing at being shinobi. That we are the real deal, so go to the Hokage's to get your mission while I go with my team to train." She tells him as she goes over to Shino and rests her hand in the inside of his bent elbow then she drags him over to Kiba to do the same. They walk away Kiba talking and his other two teammates listen.
I just stand there watching as I start to lose Hinata. Little by little she's removing herself from me. But not just from me but also from Naruto.
She doesn't train with us as she used to, she goes every once in a while.
It's not as if I care. It's just that it's weird not to have her around like before. For some reason when she's around I feel calmer not so on edge, even if Naruto is around. With her I could tolerate Naruto's presence but, now I have two people I can't stand and annoy me to no end.
Naruto has always annoyed me but, without Hinata around he's a pest I can't kill.
Then there's Sakura, there is no other girl more annoying then her well except Ino. Just the sound of her voice irritates me, then the clinging; do not get me started on that.
I just don't understand why I stay here at this stupid-weak village. I should just leave but, then I think about Hinata and there's also the fact that Kakashi is pretty strong he could probably teach me a few things. That's the real reason I'm staying it is absolutely not because of Hinata.
"Come on dope, we should go to the Hokage to see what mission we will get," I tell Naruto.
"All I know, if it's a sucky mission, I'll refuse it!" he yells.
I let out a sigh knowing it's going to be a very long day.
One month later…
I return from my mission and it's been a whole month since I've seen Naruto or Sasuke. I've seen them around the village but they are with their team and so I decide not to interfere plus I went on a mission while they too, went on a mission and I've only returned today.
Also I met someone on the mission someone that if I mentioned to Sasuke he'll get pissed.
I' am not sure if I should tell Sasuke that I saw and spoke with Itachi.
When we spoke he never even mentioned Sasuke. It's weird before I used to fear him but, now I could look into his eyes and not be afraid.
I have to admit he didn't not act like a cold-blooded killer, now his partner was quite scary it wasn't just that he looks like a shark but the way he said he'd kill me, if Itachi hadn't stopped him, I probably wouldn't be walking towards the training grounds right now.
I make my way to our private training ground, I expected to find Naruto and Sasuke there but I don't hear them arguing. I go to the shed and I find Sasuke laying on the floor and looking up at the ceiling.
"Hey Sasuke you would never believe what happened on the mission…" I didn't continue though because I noticed that he wasn't paying attention to me. I go over to him and kneel next to him. I tug on his sleeve then he suddenly grabs my wrist, with my other hand I grab one of his fingers and start to bend it backwards. He suddenly looks at me and let's go of my wrist and I let go of his finger. "What's wrong?" I ask him softly, he sits up then looks at the floor.
"Nothing," he answers me.
"You don't want to talk about it?" I ask him softly.
"No," he tells me, I stay quiet as I keep looking at him waiting to see if he can keep what's bothering him, inside. "Something happened during the mission."
"I heard the Third gave you a C-ranked mission because of Naruto, so how did it go?" I ask him.
"We completed it, the stupid dope even got a bridge named after him," Sasuke smiles slightly, the he continues a frown now appearing on his face. "It's just that I almost died…if it wasn't for that stupid kid I wouldn't be here right now…I wouldn't have been able to kill Itachi."
"So Naruto saved you?" I ask him.
"Not really, I kind of saved him…but he was able to almost defeat a ninja that was stronger…a ninja I couldn't even defeat…also I was willing to die in order to save him."
I stay quiet as I let everything he told me, sink in. "He's your friend," I say quietly.
"What?" he asks me finally looking up at me, I smile at him.
"Sasuke, he's your friend! Of course you are going to protect him you care for him. You would do the same thing for Sakura or me." I finish telling him.
"She didn't even do anything useful on the mission I had to protect her," he says irritated, I give him a light punch on his arm as I smile.
"That's what happens when there is a great shinobi like you on the team; you have to protect your teammates."
"Yeah, well next time I might not," he says, I just laugh. "Let me show you something." I look at him. "Sharingan," he says then I see his eyes, I take in a breath and my mouth stays open, then I remember back to when I met with Itachi again.
"Hello Hinata, it's been a while," I hear a very familiar voice say; I turn around to face the man that changed Sasuke's life.
"Well, if it isn't the boy who killed an entire clan. How have you been?" I ask him sarcastically.
"Pretty good and you?" he asks me sounding interested.
"Cut the bullshit, Itachi what do you want?" I ask him.
"There is no bullshit, I just wanted to see how my future student is doing, that's all," he goes back to his emotionless voice.
"Have you been following me?" I ask him.
"Do you believe I'm that stupid? I don't have to keep and eye on you to know you'll be joining me soon."
"Why do you say that?" I yell at him.
"Because I just do," he says to me.
"I should call Kurenai Sensei but, I won't because you are much more powerful then her and you'll kill her and my teammates."
"True," he says as if it's nothing to kill a human being.
"What's taking so long, Itachi?" I hear a voice; I look over to where it came from. Then someone tall holding something large in his hand emerges from the shadows wearing the same cloak as Itachi.
"Ahh…look your boyfriend and you match, isn't that cute!" I say as I clap once and rest my hands in the same form while resting them between my breasts.
"Who is this bitch?" the guy asks Itachi as I see him more clearly and I notice that he looks like a shark.
"Just an old friend from the village," he answers.
"Would it be okay if I cut her up then? We wouldn't want her opening her trap now, would we?" I start to shake out of fear. The way he said it, it was so casual but I could feel his killing intent, I felt as it was circling around me making the air I breath thick with death, then it quickly went in for the kill by closing in on my throat and it stayed there slowly squeezing away my life.
I can't move, I feel like I' am the prey in the open ocean for a very hungry shark.
"Actually, you can't. You are looking at my future student, she is loyal to me and won't say that she saw me," he says as he goes over to stand next to the shark.
"Really?" he asks in a mixture of surprise and interest in his voice, I feel his killing intent go away as quickly as if I just imagined it all, I start to relax. "She has that much potential? She doesn't look like much," he says as he takes a better look at me.
"Once I' am done with her she'll be almost as powerful as me," he says. "Come on Kisame let's go or the leader will get upset." They were leaving but then Itachi turned around to face me. "When you are ready to come to me of your own will, come to the village between Leaf and Rocks," he says to me as he and Kisame walk away.
"Don't you want to know about Sasuke?" I ask him he does not react.
"He's not important," he says to me as he doesn't even stop or look back at me.
"I made a promise to him, and plan on making it happen," I say, he stops to turn around and look at me.
"What kind of promise?"
"I promised that I would help him kill you," I say my own killing intent oozing out to capture him. He just looks at me not showing what he's thinking. He turns around and walks away, Kisame laughing at what I said. "Why did you do it?" I ask him softly he just walks away but I saw him stiffen. "Why did you do it! It's all your fault Sasuke changed! Why do you make Sasuke suffer? He blames himself. He's stupid he believes he could've prevented it he thought he could protect them all! Why did you change him?" I yell everything and I start to cry. I cry because something in my heart tells me that I will be weak and become Itachi's student, I also cry for that little boy the one I fell in love with. I fall on my knees as Itachi and Kisame disappear into the shadows leaving me behind to cry all alone.
"Hinata are you okay?" Sasuke asks me as I look into his eyes that are sill in the Sharingan form.
"Yours are different," I hear myself say.
"From who's…" then his eyes become wide. "When did you see him?" he asks me as he holds on to my shoulders really tight, so tight that I' am afraid he'll leave me bruises.
"That day," I say he let's go of me. "I also saw them the first day we met, remember when you left to tell your parents you were leaving with Itachi, that's when he showed them to me too," I confess to him but, not willing to tell him that I recently saw him and that I' am about to betray him. I see him think it through then I see his eyes become wide at a sudden realization.
"Was that why when I returned you were on the ground coughing?" he asks me, I nod.
Tell him! I hear a voice say to me. Tell him you just met with Itachi, tell him that you will betray him and join his brother.
I can't, I can't do that to him! He'll hate me.
"H-H-H-HI- NATAAA!" I hear Naruto yell, then he bursts through the door with a huge smile on his lips but it slowly disappeared as he saw Sasuke.
"Hey, Naruto! Long time no see, how are you?" I ask as I look up at him.
"Okay," I hear him say to me quietly. I look at both boys who seem to be ignoring each other and they can't seem to look at on another. It becomes quiet too quiet, I look at one then the other.
"Did something happen between you two?" I ask them slowly. None of them answer one looks out the window while the other look out the door. "Something is really wrong, you guys aren't even arguing! Not that I mind I like it to be quiet but it's just too eerie," I tell them, neither of them say anything. It becomes silent once more. "What really happened on that mission?" I ask them slowly through slit eyes watching their every move.
"Nothing, I want to talk about," I hear Sasuke mumble.
"It's too weird to talk about yet," Naruto mumbles.
The room becomes soundless again.
"Where was this mission?" I ask them.
"The land of waves," Naruto answers me.
"Oh!! Were you guys excited? I mean the first time you are actually able to leave the village; it must have been really cool!" I say extremely excited, maybe too excited.
"Yeah, it really was, I was so excited to leave the village, I've never left it before but, it wasn't really a vacation, you know," he started off all excited but then turned semi-serious. "We didn't get any time off! We fought S-class criminals, trained I can walk on trees without using my hands, then we fought again and I got a bridge named after me," he smiles as he finishes.
"I know Sasuke told me! That is so cool! I' am really happy for you Naruto," I tell him.
"That idiot! He ruins everything; I wanted to tell you myself!" Naruto says as he sits down Indian style with his arms crossed over his chest.
Sasuke doesn't say anything as he just glares at Naruto then looks out the window.
I stay there, quiet as I wait for one of them to say something, anything. We stay like this for a good fifteen minutes but, then I suddenly get up and start to walk out but then I turn around to face them in the doorway.
"I'm leaving it's just too weird," I say as I stand there waiting for one of them to say something to me but, they don't so I give them my back and start to run sending chakra to my feet as I jump up on the tree branches.
I have to find Sakura and ask her what happened during the mission. What was it that shifted between Sasuke and Naruto?
I watched as Hinata left, and think about going after her, I look back at Sasuke and he is looking out the window completely ignoring me, I walk out.
It's weird to be with him after what he did for me the way he took all the senbon shielding me from the attack and what he said afterwards about his brother is confusing, I thought Sasuke was the only Uchiha left, at least that's what I heard. I better find Hinata and ask her but, I'll go slowly taking my time, and hopefully she won't still be upset. All I know is I prefer her to be upset at me instead of Sakura, I shudder just thinking about her she always wants to hit me for everything I say!!
I wonder if what Hinata said is true do I really think of Naruto as a friend. If so if I were to kill him would I be able to obtain the Mangekyou Sharingan? I wonder if it is possible… Maybe I won't have to kill Hinata and now I could just kill him instead.
I activate the Byakugan as I enter the streets of the village, I locate Sakura in the library, and I head over there.
I sit next to her and she does not look up at me, so I look over her shoulder and begin to read the scroll with her. I notice her get irritated and she looks up she was about to yell at me but, then she noticed it was me.
"Oh, Hinata, do you need something?" she asks me quite loud and the librarian, looks over at her and she ignores her.
"Well I was wondering if you could tell me what happened during the mission you guys had at the Land of Waves, Naruto and Sasuke have been acting weird," I tell her then I feel the librarian's gaze on me, and I turn red and sink lower into the chair.
"You've noticed it too!" she says really loud, the librarian was about to say something to us but, Sakura looks over at her then glares at her and the librarian becomes busy with the papers in front of her.
"How about I pay for tea and sweets at the tea place? So we could talk louder and not be worried about someone yelling at us," I tell her and she nods, glaring at the librarian as we leave.
We finally sit down inside the little house that turned into a little restaurant that serves only tea and sweets. We order what we want and we finally get comfortable and she starts to talk about the mission. She told me how they were attacked a while after leaving the village and how they found out that their client was a target for some thug, what Naruto did and the vow he made, how they met Zabuza and everything else that happened.
"The last fight they had on the bridge I couldn't see anything because of the fog but it was after that, they begun to act different they would barely talk, argue they wouldn't even look at each other. During the mission they used teamwork but now it's like totally no existent, it's just weird to be around them," she tells me as she drinks her tea.
"I know what you mean," I tell her.
"Naruto told me that Sasuke was dead and I remember I thought he really was, I couldn't breathe, I couldn't think, I could not react, all I wanted to do is go to him and see if it was true, and when I did see him all I could do was cry, I couldn't do anything to help him," she says really sad and tears start to fall from her eyes as she remembers back to that day. "Then when he woke up I was so happy, so glad, relieved, thankful, joyful so many good emotions came over me," she tells me turning happy. I look at her wondering if she truly loves him I was about to ask her but, something came over me.
I would like to know but, I don't, I don't want to know if her feelings for him are deeper then the other girls. It would be weird for me to find out that there is a girl who loves him for being the grouchy him. I love Sasuke, I do but I don't want someone like Sakura to love him also, she's pretty, smart, sure she has a short temper but, still she would be perfect for him.
I give my head a little shake, but if I really think about it, if she could make him happy the kind of happiness I want for him then I would gladly step aside and let her have him. It would break my heart but, with time I' am sure it would heal. I gathered my courage to ask her until someone grabbed me; I look up to see Naruto.
"Naruto what is it?" I ask him.
"NNNN-AAAARUTOOOOO!!!" I hear Sakura yell, he immediately hides behind me and I look at Sakura as I stand up.
"You better not hit Naruto in front of me Sakura or you will be sorry," I warn her she looks at me surprised. "Naruto would never hit you, but, I on the other hand would gladly do it, I do not like that you hit him for no reason, do you get it?" I ask her softly as I look into her green eyes she slowly nods and she sits back down. I look over at him and he looks relieved. "What's wrong Naruto?" I ask him concerned because he has a frown on his face.
"I have to talk to you in private," he says looking over a Sakura, she gets up ready to hit him but, I look back at her and she sits back down.
"I'm sorry Sakura, but I must leave, thank you for telling me. I really hope Sasuke returns your feelings," I tell her as I put money on the table to cover the tab and give a hefty tip to our waitress. "I'll see you around," I tell her as I wave at her and leave with Naruto. We go to the place where Kakashi sensei passed team seven and I sit down, as Naruto sits next to me.
"What is wrong Naruto?" I ask him as I look over to him.
"Sasuke has said some things that I don't understand," he tells me his frown still on his face. "When he protected me from Haku's attacks he told me he wanted to kill his brother. What I don't get is that aren't all the Uchiha supposed to be extinct or something like that?" he asks me as he scratches the back of his head and looks at me with his eyes closed.
"He told you something about Itachi?" I ask him surprised that Sasuke would tell Naruto.
"Itachi who is Itachi?" he asks me as he looks at me confused.
I look back wondering if I should tell him what happened the day that changed Sasuke's life forever. I look at the ground trying to decide if I should or if I shouldn't, I look up at him and decide…
You'll have to wait until the next chapter to see what Hinata decides so until then… Thanks for reading this chapter, I hope you enjoyed it.