A/N: Sorry for the wait! I know I said I would try to make this chapter better, but it's really difficult to write a story with the main character in this situation (You'll see in the first little bit).
Also, for some reason it
just occurred to me that Sasuke is back in the village. Wonder why I didn't notice that before. But pretend that he's just there because Naruto dragged him back and changed his ways like he did to so many others (not the dragging... the changing).

Also, I have a lot of brackets in this one, sorry about that.

Orange and White

Chapter 5

After that, I basically lost my will to do anything. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't suicidal or anything, it's... it's more like the feeling when you wake up on a Monday morning and all you want to do is stay in bed...but then your mom or dad bursts into your room and yells at you to wake up. Except for me, there wasn't anything that made me get up. Actually, it was more the opposite.

There's this constant battle inside me for control that me and Other Hinata were fighting, even though we were kind of doing it unconsciously. It was something that we just did without thinking, like breathing. Anyways, because of that, as soon as I... stopped fighting, Other Hinata just completely overtook my body. Here's another analogy; if you pushing someone, and they're pushing back, if you just suddenly stop pushing, you're going to get thrown to the ground, whether the other person meant to or not. Which in this case, they didn't. It's funny actually... because we share thoughts, if the other consciousness suffers, so does the other. We have to share the pain, so Other Hinata was encouraging me to cheer up.

Of course I didn't. She didn't even know what was wrong, so how was she supposed to know how to make me feel better? But that made Other Hinata frustrated, so she got angry.

That's what the difference was between me and her, mainly. When something bad happened, I got sad. Other Hinata got angry. Of course, everyone else in the Hyuuga clan was like her. Another one of the things that made me different from my family.

Oh, would you stop sulking already? It's driving me nuts!

...

Fine, you don't even have to stop sulking, just freakin' answer me!

...

You know what? Never mind. I'm just going to go out into town and make sure you lose all your friends. Infact, I'm going act just like Sasuke.

She was obviously expecting me to say something about Sasuke, but it didn't work.

Screw you, I'm really am going to ruin all your friendships, expecially with Naruto.

...

Fine!

...

And then she just walked downstairs and put on her shoes, but of course Neji had to interrupt again. He said that father wanted to train with me (us?). So right away Other Hinata turned around and followed Neji. Me, I just watched. That's all you can do when some one else takes over your body. You just watch, and think. It's kind of like a movie that you can talk with (too many analogies?).

So we trained and practised our kunai and shuriken throwing, and tried to get better at the Gentle Fist. I expected it to be hard, since I'd basically perfected it, but Other Hinata was a million times better at this stuff than I was. She even managed to learn 8 trigrams: 64 palms in the 2 hours we trained with Neji. It's like she was born to be a kunoichi (a female ninja, incase you didn't know).

After we were done, Other Hinata had to meet up with the rest of Team 8 at the training grounds, so she tried to get out of the house for the second time today, desperately hoping that Neji wouldn't bother us. Luckily (Unluckily for me), he didn't. Other Hinata ran to the training grounds and stopped abruptly. Kurenai and all of my old academy classmates were there looking at us. Instead of blushing like I usually would, Other Hinata simply paled. To my surprise, some of the boys in the clearing looked angry and sad at the same time. Kiba and Naruto looked like they'd been crying.

Other Hinata couldn't understand why, but I was thinking very hard on the past few days; I don't know if us guys would still like you. That's what Kiba said. Us guys... that suddenly made sense (I blocked my thoughts right about here). Kiba, Naruto, Shino... even Shikamaru looked a little depressed... did that mean they liked me (or in Shikamaru's case, used to like me)? It wasn't very obvious... except when I was with Kiba, or Shino. Shino always stood up for me, saying that I was stronger than what everyone else thought. Kiba... the annoyance in his voice whenever I fainted because of Naruto... I felt like I had let them down. I felt kind of strange after that thought, but I was also more upset by it, so it wasn't like I suddenly decided to take control of my body.

Other Hinata was still standing in the same spot when I figured it all out when Kurenai stood up and hugged me again. When Kurenai let go, she looked at me like she was trying to figure out something, but steered me into the middle of the circle that my former classmates formed. Then she left in a way that suggested that she was frightened to see something...

...which turned out to be Ino, Sakura, Kiba, and Choji tying me up and seating me on a tree stump. Then Shikamaru walked forward lazily (and somewhat reluctantly), Sakura right behind him.

"Sorry Hinata," Shikamaru shot me a look that also looked like he was speculating something, "It is a bit harsh, but we need some answers from you. Now."

"Yes... or I'll whack you." Sakura put on her gloves and smashed a nearby tree for emphasis.

Kiba, Shino, and Naruto looked away while Sasuke eagerly watched as the interrogation began.

"First things first Hinata..." Shikamaru began, "You know that if you refuse to marry Gaara, your father is just going to make you, right?". Other Hinata nodded.

"Are you happy about that?"

Other Hinata didn't respond, and Sakura lightly slapped her. "It'll hurt a lot more next time."

Shikamaru rolled his eyes at her, but repeated the question, "Are you happy about the thing with Gaara?"

Other Hinata refused to say anything (I guess she's the strong and silent type), and when Sakura raised her hand again, she quickly cut the rope with chakra, made a swinging motion with her hand that reminded me of Kankuro, and appeared to be playing an swinging, invisible piano while Sakura suddenly tried to beat up Sasuke.

Holy shoot, you're a puppet master!

Holy shoot, you just thought-spoke to me.

Shikamaru instantly went into genius-mode and watched while Naruto tried to get Sakura off Sasuke and Shino sent insect-parasites to eat Other Hinata's chakra strings. He then proceded to cover Other Hinata with his insects, forming a cocoon with just her head sticking out.

Ino then did her Mind Transfer Jutsu on Other Hinata, and took over our body.

"Ok, Shino. You can let us down now." Ino said in Other Hinata's (and my) voice. The cocoon slowly disintegrated and Choji tied Other Hinata/Ino up. "Sorry Ino, this is just incase you lose her. Hinata can be quite strong somethings." Choji said, shooting a glance at Naruto, who didn't notice.

By now, Ino still hadn't noticed my consciousness yet. Well, I might as well get her attention.

H-hello Ino. How are y-you d-d-doing?