A/N: Anyone who message me about the comp issue I had thank you. It actually got resolved just an hour after I posted that. I got a new laptop, so everything is good now.
I did a time skip for this chapter, but it's fine.


Hiashi died two weeks after Sasuke and Hinata saw him.

Sasuke had noticed a withdraw from Hinata over that time. She stopped cooking and cleaning as much. And she hardly ate. She didn't want to see anyone or do anything.

Today was different however. Hinata was dressed in all black. Sakura and Ino had gone shopping and gotten a simple black dress for her to wear. Her eyes look blank and void of emotion. She had been adamant about going to the funeral, but now she didn't look like she wanted to at all.

Sasuke had a fitted black shirt and long black pants. He sighed. He didn't want to go to this. He was still trying to figure out what Hiashi had told him before. Obviously Hinata didn't know what Hiashi had talked about...At least he thought so. He mostly avoided talking to her about things like that.

They stepped out the apartment. The air of the city felt different. But the city was still moving. Not a thing seemed different. It wasn't like the Hokage had died. Hiashi had been a very private person like many of the Hyuga clan...Which really meant that no one would notice his disappearance from the village. And most wouldn't care that he was gone.

Sasuke wrapped his arm behind Hinata, protectively. He wasn't happy about any of this. It felt like the time when his own clan died. No one else cared. Rumors would pass, but that's all they ever would be. No one would notice.

They arrived at the private burial grounds. A crowd already gathered and the casket being lowered. They had not arrived to see the ceremony. The meager group around the grave seemed as uncaring as people of the village. The only person shedding tears was Hanabi with Neji at her side.

Once the body was buried the crowd left. Sasuke's eyes caught with Neji's. The man scowled, but continued on with his younger cousin. Sasuke knew that Neji wasn't happy about Hinata saying with him, but today was no a day to fight about that.

With the crowd gone Sasuke and Hinata finally stepped over to the grave. Hinata knelt by the head stone. Her finger tracing the engravings on the stone. Her expression lifeless. Sickening almost to Sasuke's eyes. He didn't know why he cared still, but he wanted to see her smile again. Cursing himself more and more for not keeping his eyes on her. He should have had the sense to keep her away from Hiashi, just like he said. Even if the relationship he learned of seemed far more different than he expected.

"Sasuke."

He looked down at Hinata. Her eyes still focused on the stone.

"I remembered some things." She said in a low voice.

He tried his best to keep from freaking out. He wasn't even sure how to react to it those words actually. Her remember things was suppose to be a good thing...But it left a bad taste in his mouth. All he could think of was if she did remember then she wouldn't need him anymore.

"I'm really nice and naive...I hate to lie. Even when I do lie most people that know me can tell I am..." She said. They were all things they both knew. Her personality had been that way for a long time. There wasn't any doubts there. But it still didn't tell Sasuke what she remembered.

"That's why he pushed me. He wanted me to become stronger...Not just in my abilities as a ninja, but to find strength to stand up for himself." Hinata said.

Sasuke frowned remembering how his father pushed him. Comparing him to his brother, how Itachi was stronger, smarter, more skilled. Everyone knew how that worked out. Sending Sasuke on not only a path of revenge, but to finally prove that he could be stronger than his brother.

"It wasn't the best methods, but he did what he knew. Since it was just how he was trained." Hinata said. "I still could never lead the clan though. He didn't want me to either...He stopped wanting me to become like him. He didn't want me to be cruel and calloused like the rest of the clan." She explained.

Sasuke in his mind already remembering the inexpressive faces of the clans men. Like they had no emotions. He remember times when he was just like that. But that would all shatter around those he was forced to call friends.

"So he told me one day to move out. That he was gonna disown me so I wouldn't have to. He told me to go to a friend. To never say why he did it. Everyone always assumed he disowned me out of hate...But he did it to save me." Tears were dripping down her cheeks now. "I used Kiba."

Sasuke was finally starting to get some answers to the questions he had been asking himself for some time. "You never loved Kiba."

"I tried to. I really did. And I do love him...Just not that way. But when I went to Kiba, he took me in. I already knew he had feelings for me, but he never acted of them. I'm a bad person." She said.

"You remembered a lot." Sasuke said. He didn't know what to say. This was what she remembered. She remembered her father saving her, by abandoning her. Using Kiba since he would be there for her when she no longer had her clan to turn to. He watched her fingers trace the engravings again like she was trying to memorize the spelling.

"Just cause I heard what he told you...I remember what happened then." She confessed.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" He questioned.

"I don't know." She answered easily.

Sasuke wanted more than just that. But he couldn't push her. She had made more steps in the right direction. She was healing slowly and he wasn't going to risk another break down or withdraw from her. "OK." He said. "Let's go home." He said. He didn't know why he said it like that. He didn't even bother to correct himself on it. Probably cause it wasn't much of a home before Hinata entered it.

Hinata got up from her position on the ground. Brushing away at the dirt on the dress. He brushed away his tears before putting his arm around her again. Taking her back to the apartment.


"No." Sasuke said in a low voice. Hinata was sleeping in the bedroom and he was trying his hardest not to wake her.

"Come on Sasuke! It's her birthday next week! It should be good for her to be surrounded by her friends." Sakura whined. She was trying to make up for the disaster of the outing they had. "You know it could be good for her after what happened with her father."

Sasuke's eye twitched. He didn't like Sakura's assumption about what would be good for Hinata. Still he thought about how much Hinata had remembered. If she hadn't remember when she did then she might not have seen her father before his death. And most definitely wouldn't have been at the funeral today.

"Fine." He said with annoyance to giving in. "Nothing big. Simple, and only us from the 9 genin of our year. Also Neji, Tenten, Lee, and the senseis." Sasuke listened. He was already starting to regret this because by the look on Sakura's face she wasn't even listening to him.

"Don't worry Sasuke! I promise everything will be perfect!" She squealed jumping in the air a bit before running off into the night.

Sasuke rolled his eyes before closing the door. He could already tell he was gonna end badly. He blamed Sakura for the fact that she showed up at 3 in the morning and he was too tired to really reason or fight with her on the issue. He dragged his feet back to the bedroom sliding under the blankets.

"Is everything OK?" Hinata asked in a quiet voice.

"Fine. Sleep." Sasuke said. He feel asleep himself after comfortably laying an arm across Hinata's waist laying on his stomach.


A/N: I think this story will have a few more chapters to it...But can't be sure. Hope you all liked this chapter.