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Here's chapter 2! yes, it'll be only three chapters...okay...i lied, maybe four. but that's for a different reason than expected. I refuse to go beyond 5 tops.

And four is only to accommodate Naruto POV and Hinata POV

The last chapter...idk.

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sorry this didn't come out the day it was supposed to, but we are moving and I find myself to be a little tired and sore. here it is thow :)

DO NOT OWN NARUTO

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Her Tiny World

I reached my door in a huffing panting mess. It's not that Hinata was heavy but that I had to run all the way back home because I didn't have enough cash for the bus. Not wanting her to freeze I tried to hurry home as fast as possible. I shuffled nervously at the door and banged on it with my foot.

"Mom! Dad!" I called out loudly. "Hurry I need your help!" I put an extra amount of urgency in my voice hoping to speed them up.

Their footsteps were muffled behind the door but with the frantic pace they set it was soon opened within a few minuets by my startled dad. His blue eyes concerned.

"Naruto wha-" I brushed past him and into the house.

"Sorry dad." Running past my mom I made it into the living room, the bed was still pulled out so I gently placed Hinata down.

Now what do I do? My mom walked up behind me and placed a calming hand to my shoulder.

"Naruto, what is going on?" She questioned. "Who is this?"

"She needs help!" My dad was back in the room, alert and focused while I could only gesture to the girl on the bed in a panicked frenzy. She looked so small and helpless, shivering on the bed. My mothers blue eyes grew dark with determination as she took charge.

"Minato, go get some towels and blankets." dad nodded at took off down the hall. She turned to me with urgency, face hard and calm. "Naruto, go get some of your pajamas, clean ones, and hurry back down." I nodded my head and ran up the stairs two at a time to my room.

Quickly I filtered through my drawers and came across my fuzzy ramen pajama pants that were similar in material to what Hinata's purple ones. Next I pulled out my long orange sleeve tee and some dark blue boxers just in case. Not finding the time for embarrassment or wonderment at a girl wearing my clothes, I rushed down the stairs and with a loud clatter jumped off the last two steps.

Handing the clothes off to my mom I stood to the side while dad handed her the things he was sent to get along with a first-aid kit. He then grabbed my shoulder and pulled me out of the living room and placed me firmly into a kitchen chair.

"Hey!"

"Naruto, it's girl business in there for a second." I blushed when realizing what he meant and humbly mumbled back a garbled 'yeah.'

Dad walked around our square kitchen and sat across from me placing his elbows on the table he leaned his chin on the back of his hands. Blue eyes stared intensely into my own. "Tell me what happened."

"I... well, I'm not sure." I then explained to him how I had seen a figure disappear in the snow and grew worried by gut instinct. The only thing I had really learned from her though was her name.

He sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "We'll have to take her to the hospital, and I'll get hold of my people to see what we have. As well as Hiashi."

"You think so? There aren't many kids Neji's age at school, an older kid and two younger ones that I can remember, but I've never seen her."

"You said her eyes were pale, it's a Hyuga family trait. So unless she's blind, which you doubt to, I should get a hold of him."

With my head bent down and my brows furrowed I tried to decide what to do with this bad feeling. "Dad, she didn't seem to want to go home. She asked me if 'he' sent me. What...well, what do you think?" He shrugged helplessly.

"Okay, you two can come back in." Mom walked in and to the left, throwing the towels into out laundry room. "Come on." She gestured and I slowly pulled myself out of the chair by bracing my hands against the table.

"Minato, you might want to call C.P.S."

"Is she in bad shape mom?" I walked into the living room again, finding Hinata swaddled under warm blankets. Her body covered up to her neck and her hair fanned out under her.

Mom sighed, debating weather or not to tell me. She and dad never want to lie to me, but that always made for hard decisions to be made when it came to difficult things. Her face knit with her conflict.

"I know I'm no doctor, but I do know some small details from hanging with Tsunade."

She sat on the bed leaving me and dad standing. Ever so gently she caressed the girls red cheeks, moving her bangs to reveal a cold pack on her forehead made to help relieve fevers. Hinata shifted a little and scooted closer to the touch.

"What do you think?" Dad questioned, already he had his phone out, fingers moving quickly. "I've told Tsunade to get a room ready. I'll get the car started"

She nodded her head and I leaned in a little closer to catch any missed info. While dad walked away she seemed hesitant to tell me what she had found.

"Mom!" I begged, slightly angry. "Is she hurt bad!"

Giving in she started to talk. "Physically she will heal fine. Malnourished I think, there are painful scars, some bruises, other than that I can tell what her past has been like."

"Bad." The red-head only nodded her head in slight agreement.

"Will you carry her to the car?"

With a grunt I picked up Hinata, she hardly weighed a pound to me, and headed off to our garage carefully covering her face with the blanket. Dad sat in the front seat watching the big wide door open to let us pass and mom sat down in the passenger seat. I uncovered Hinata's face and laid her head in my lap. The car sped off.

Outside the world fell in silent cleansing white while inside our minds turmoiled. Mom and dad had grim faces and I found my self staring sadly yet fondly at Hinata. Her cheeks which we pale and hued with fever red looked soft, her hair was a pretty indigo. She was pretty.

"D-daddy..." I watched as she shook her head back and forth in her now troubled sleep, face drawn in pain. "S-s-stop!" Her voice was fearful, but quiet.

"Naruto," My dad's saddened gaze caught my own through the rear view mirror. "Why don't you keep her calm?"

Looking down I shook her arm softly. "Ne, Hinata, wake up. It's just a nightmare." I kept my normally loud voice down to a whisper.

"Unn..." She moaned, but her eye lids fluttered and slowly I was graced to see her snow eyes.

When her gaze caught mine she sat up fast in a scared panic before she fell back with a tired groan. I chuckled.

"It's okay, it's me Naruto remember?"

Slowly, cautiously, her eyes flowed to mine. "Y-yes." She whispered.

"Well, my dad over there," I pointed with my chin, "is taking us to the hospital."

"H-h-he wo-won't be t-there?" She shivered and I tucked the blanket tight around her. Her body stiffened when I touched her but relaxed some when I put my hands in her vision, showing her where the went so I could hold her safely.

"Who?"

"D-daddy." She mumbled, unconsciously leaning more into, her head on my stomach. "He, h'he'll be m-mad. V-very mad."

Seeing that she was terrified I tried to abate her fears. "Don't worry, I won't let him hurt you. Promise." reached under the blankets I grabbed her hand.

Her hand was cold and tiny, it felt as weak as she looked. A tired hand that barely managed to grab some strength to squeeze my own. A small thankful smile spread across her lips like an opening on a rainy day.

"Th-thank you!"

I laughed. "It's no problem to help a pretty girl like you." I commented using some of what little teaching I had taken to heart from Jiraiya, always make a girl feel like a lovely princess especially when they're feeling down.

My comment earned a darker blush and a sarcastic sigh from my mom. She turned around and winked happily at me though. Hinata yawned tiredly.

"You can sleep, I'll keep you safe." She nuzzled closer and I wrapped my arms around her body, this time keeping her head on my shoulder while she nuzzled her nose into my neck. Within a few seconds she was out again and after a few more minuets we arrived at the hospital.

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It didn't take anyone long to contact the Hyuga family. As it turned out, Hiashi Hyuga, head corporate, big leader, whatever he was, was in the hospital out like a light with stitches in his head. Apparently his nephew had come home early from studying for whatever and had found him collapsed in the bathroom. For now, dad just had a police officer at his door and he was personally questioning her siblings Hanabi and Neji. Being as I'm the one who saved her, and had some personal interest in her, he was letting me listen.

I stood behind a glass so they wouldn't know I was there, my mom holding tightly on to my shoulders. My dad, even though he was wearing a red sleeping shirt with Rudolph on it, still managed to have this harsh and intimidating look on his face as he sat opposite of the cousins.

Neji I knew from school. He was a grade above me, but both of us had been in some very heated karate competitions and a school fight here or there. I never really thought of him as a bad guy, stuck up maybe, but he did seem to generally care for his friends. Hanabi, the littler one was about ten and I hadn't seen her before.

"So, you want to tell me about Hinata?"

Neji looked startled and Hanabi shifted in her seat, head down at the table. "This hospital only holds her birth certificate, but other than that there is no record. Hiashi's signature is on it, proving him to be the dad and a warrant is already being prepared to search the house."

He leaned on to he folded hands, blue eyes wide and accepting. "Neji, Hanabi, fill in the blanks please. What has he been doing to her?"

They didn't answer and the calm cold face I usually saw Neji hold was a broken mass of emotions. Hurt, confusion, sadness. But it was Hanabi who broke the silence.

"Da-" She paused and corrected her speech. "He told us she was his princess, that he was protecting her." She mumbled slowly, lifting up her head to stare into my dads eyes with focused pale ones. Where Hinata's snow eyes had been soft her were hard and determined.

"Does that seem like a way someone would protect a princess?" He questioned her kindly. "Hinata has many scars, oddly healed bones, and fresh bruises. Is that how you would protect someone Hanabi?"

"No." She whispered.

"It's not her fault." Neji cut in. Dad looked at him this time, focusing his attention to Neji's defeated eyes.

"Uncle, I don't know, after aunt Hitomi died he began to act strange. Hinata couldn't come out to play anymore, she was kept inside." His fists curled tightly on the table, showing the whites of his knuckles. "And then he built that room for her-"

"Room?"

Neji nodded. "In the basement, it was made to keep her locked in. The only ones allowed in are me, Hanabi, uncle and a maid. He tries to keep us out more though now, so we see her less often."

"And you knew what type of treatment she was receiving?"

"It didn't start out like that, not really. He just kept her down there all the time and I tried to bring her things to play with. But the more she learned, they more she tried to get out. That's when he began to punish her- you know, to teach her. I stopped doing those things so she wouldn't want anything and once Hanabi was old enough to go down, I asked her not to either."

Any other day I would have been amazed at how much Neji was talking.

"Why didn't either of you ever tell anyone? You must have known she was suffering."

They looked guilty. "I tried once, but I was little and I made the mistake of telling a guard of my uncle who was loyal to him. Uncle told me that he would move Hinata if I did that again and I would never see her again. I- I didn't want her to be alone."

Hanabi leaned against her cousin. "I never tried when I was little." She told him, voice laced with guilt. "I was jealous because I thought she really was a princess, I didn't understand. Then I started to see things, hear things, I walked in on things..." She shuddered. "When I told Neji, he said father would take her away. Then he said he was scared dad would take me to."

I wanted to be mad at them, for not trying to save her. But I couldn't really be mad because in their own way they though they were keeping her safe. It was Hiashi who twisted their reasoning about and made them fear for their safety, and Hinata's safety.

"I have no loyalty to my uncle, if you ask, I'll do anything to save my cousins. My sisters. I'll show you everything and tell you everything I know he's done...and," He cast a look to Hanabi. "Some things are worse than others." I growled deep in my throat and my moms hands became an anchoring pressure.

Some things worse than others? Something too much for a kid to hear. I'll beat the crap out of him!

My dad smiled at them and stood up. He walked around the table and bending down a little he pulled the two kids into his side. Hanabi reacted first, reaching a hand around his neck before sobbing into his chest. Neji was slower, looking at his cousin and then to my dad before leaning into him for a pull of strength. My anger was sedated as I watched the long tears slide down Neji's pale tired cheeks. They were of sadness and relief.

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After that I stayed in Hinata's room, holding her hand and swearing that I would make her life amazing. I'm not sure why or how I would do that, but something pulled at me to try. Neji and Hanabi both visited for a while before heading off. Neji would go with my dad to show them the house and the room. Hanabi to her grandparents house where she would later meet up with her family.

Her grandparents had cried when they walked in and saw Hinata's prone still form. Hiashi had told them she died with his wife in the car crash that killed her. Neji revealed that Hinata had never been in that car. The old man and women had kissed her cheeks and forehead, gently touching her arm as if she would disappear. Soon they left with cops to answer questions and inform the rest of the family.

"Mmmm..." I snapped my head up from its dozing place on the hospital bed and looked intently at Hinata. Her nose crinkled a little as she woke up and her free hand reached to rub at her eyes.

"W-where's this?" Hinata asked me quietly, arms darting back and forth around the room.

I squeezed her hand softly and grinned. "This is the hospital."

"W-white." She mumbled.

"Hu?"

She tried to sit up and I held up a hand motioning her to lay back down. "Hold on there." I reached the buttons and pressed down for the bed to move up. Her face changed from fear to a sudden delight as it moved and she laughed joyfully. It was pretty laugh and I smiled with her a little sadly.

Trapped in a room all her life. She really hasn't seen the world.

"Now, that's cool right?"

"Uumm..y-yes." She blushed, pale eyes once again gazing at the room.

"A w-white world?"

"Uh, what?" He quiet words were hard to understand and left me a little stumbled as what to do.

"T-this isn't o-outside?"

"No, inside." I couldn't tell if she was disappointed at the fact she was inside or not. "But ne, look out there!" I pointed out the third floor window that viewed Konoha under its snow blanket. "You can see outside from here. Isn't it great? We've got a good snow fall this year?"

"S-snow? T-the cold s-stuff?"

I was a little put of by the question. It reminded me of this tiny kid I saw once who asked his mom what the snow was. That's what she was like, that kid, but forcefully stuck in a phase of childhood.

"Yup, the cold stuff." She grinned happily and squeezed my hand.

"T-thank you, N-Naruto."

Laughing sheepishly I waved a hand. "Do, do you want to see the snow?"

Her eyes went wide. "You didn't really get to see it's good side, I promise it isn't always like that, the snow can be fun!"

"W-what ab-about d-da-daddy?" The frightened girl drew her legs up to her chest.

"He won't ever hurt you again."

"Re-really?"

"Yup!"

Shyly she looked up at me. "A-are you t-the s-s-sun? Or- or a k-knight?"

I blanched. "No, I'm Naruto."

"O-oh."

"It's my hair right?" I laughed. She nodded frantically, head down and a red blush staining her cheeks.

"L-like the light o-outside my w-w-window, a-and the st-tories of p-princesses."

Nodding my head I stood and went to the little hospital drawer. "Thank you Hinata, for thinking I'm the sun. That's really cool! No one's told me that before."

Looking through the drawer I found two thick pairs of socks. "Hey, you mind if I put some socks on you?"

"Y-you m-m-mean t-t-tou-"

"No!" I said quickly, standing at the edge of her bead. "I won't touch you in any way you don't want. Not like that." I glared at the ground then calmed my face into a grin and held up the socks. "I just want to put some socks on your feet."

"K..." She told me meekly.

Making sure that she could see my hands the entire time I helped ease the socks on to her feet. "You're Cinderella!" I joked, hoping to ease her down. It worked.

Her grin came back and a small giggle tickled he lips. "S-she h-had glass sl-lippers."

"Eh, close enough." Walking over to a chair I grabbed the extra jacket dad had brought up in case Hinata might need it. It was just an old one of mine, bright orange but really warm, next to it I picked up my penguin snow cap so I could place it on her head. I didn't have to worry about what she was wearing because she still had on what my mother put her in as the house.

"So," I grinned widely, it was probably a bad idea considering she did have a small fever, but I wanted her to smile and see something for the first time and love it. "Want to go outside?"

After she had eagerly nodded, I really couldn't deny her want could I? Her face lit up with a bright red happy blush hand her grin spread across her cheeks. I wonder if anyone had ever seen her so happy, or if I was the first. Having her sit up a little we managed to work her into my jacket and she fumbled with the zipper before shyly asking me to zip it up, than I placed the cap firmly on he head and over her ears.

"Read?" I whispered, she could only seem to grin. I had never met someone so quiet before. But every emotion she wanted to convey was written across her face like an open book. "Okay, I need to pick you up. Cool?"

"Y-yes."

I wasn't sure if she had enough strength to hold on piggy back style, or if I had enough restraint to not nose bleed, so I instead lifted her into my arms princess style and headed out the door.

"Now we need to be real quiet so the nurses won't find us."

"W-wil w-we get pun-nished?" She stuttered fearfully.

Once again her choice of words shocked me, but I put on a joyful grin and said, "Nope! I might get scolded and my mom may pull my ear a little bit, but we won't get hurt. Especially not you."

Hinata relaxed in my arms and held a finger to her lips. "O-okay, I'll be q-quiet." She told me childishly.

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When I saw the door to the hospital courtyard I eagerly headed over, bouncing on my toes. "Hinata, I want this to be a surprise, so care to close your eyes?" She shut her eyes tight and held on closer to me.

"Don't okay until I say. Deal?"

"D-deal?"

"Promise." I amended. She was a little childlike for what I had already decided, not just in actions, but in knowledge.

"Y-yes. I p-promise."

The door was white as the rest of the hospital and cold to the touch as I pushed it open. Looking back and seeing no nurses I hurriedly rushed outside and let the door close shut behind me. Shivering as the cold blasted me I gazed at Hinata.

She shuddered for a second, adjusting to the cold. "T-this is outside?"

"Yes." She squeezed her eyes tighter.

I looked around for the courtyard bench under the maple tree. In spring the courtyard would come alive with a walk way path, a little fountain pond and a garden of flowers. Not to say it wasn't beautiful in winter which turned it into a palace of ice, it was just easier to not bump into rocks on the ground. With a happy shout I spotted the bench under the tress, guarded ever so slightly from the slow but still outside enough to see the flakes breezing by.

Placing Hinata on the bench she quickly curled into it, lifting her feet to the wood and covering her eyes so as not to peak.

"N-now?"

"Almost!" I assured.

Reaching into my pocket I took out my gloves and put one on. Grabbing the other glove and tentatively taking Hinata's left hand, I eased it on to her own. The cloth was warm against my hand as I bent down and rolled a smooth clean snowball into my palm.

"Okay, you can open your eyes."

The instant her eyes open, it was like I had just shot her full of sugar. That may not be the best way to tell it, to describe it, but the pure joy in wonderment in her eyes and tinkling sound of her joyous laugh made me want to show her the world. I want to show her everything! She didn't say a word, in the way I didn't have the words to describe her beauty, she didn't have the words to describe her feelings. Hinata just clapped a little and held out her hands to catch the flakes, a happy smile plastered thickly to her face.

"Hey," I nudged her shoulder playfully after she had sat up straight. "I made you a snow ball, and you can even eat it!" To prove my point I took a small bite out of the icy ball.

"Want to hold it?" She stared wide eyes at the snow in my hand, looking to the sky for a second.

"Y-you can h-hold the s-s-sky?!" She gaped.

I laughed. Even if her responses were still a little unnerving, the honesty in them was amazing and her wonder and awe made it amusing. "No, just what it lets us hold."

"C-can I... Can I r-really?"

"Hold out you hand, the one with the black glove."

Cautiously she held out the hand and I gently dropped the snow ball into her awaiting palm. Hinata studied the ball, squeezing, poking, just awed at holding something from the outside world.

"Take a bite! It's good!"

Looking a little doubtful she reached out and placed her delicate lips on the snow and took a bite. "Good?" I grinned.

"Y-yes!" She laughed. After she had settled down a little I saw tears falling down her cheeks silently.

"Hinata? Are you okay?" I stood and panicked waving my arms about above my head. Oh man! She's hurt, and sick! This was a bad idea. What if I made things worse?

"Y-yes." She smiled happily. "I n-never though I w-would p-play outside."

"Oh." My fear faded a little realizing she was crying out of happiness and I perked up with a wide grin. Crouching down before her so we were at eye level I decided to make her a promise.

"Hinata, I promise, I'm going to change your world. I'll take you to play in the snow, the rain, the sun, the fall, the wind... I'll show you the world Hinata! That's a promise of a life time. If you wish it, I'll be here to help grant it."

For a second she could only stare at me before her excitement took over and she launched herself at me, hugging me tightly, head nuzzling into my chest.

"T-thank you Naruto!" I found I could only smile.

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Okay, here it is!

Moving sucks. Kinda. It's fun and all. But cleaning out and re doing a house is hard word. Mind if I still shikamaru's word? It's troublesome.

But I'll have a new room and a new house so it's good! I hope to get the next chapter up sometime this week.

I think I've decided to do 3 or 4 chapters...

Y'all are at the mercy of my indecisiveness. haha...

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