Aimless Problems

By Ayesha Raees

Chapter 3

Life is a strange mystery

Hinata walked into her apartment and looked for the bag that she usually prepared for battles; it was in her nature to be prepared if an emergency took place. She had made a reserve bag which held all her necessities for a long term mission so that if the time was less, she can have a proper surviving bag to go through missions.

She opened her neatly arranged closet and pulled out an orange colored backpack from below and threw it on her bed. She closed her closet with a slight bang and walked towards the nearby wall.

She made a few hand seals and slammed her right hand onto the wall. The place where her hand made contact glowed a golden color and as she removed her hand, a seal appeared that read "hidden". A small portion of bricks disappeared, showing a small hidden chamber.

Another reason for Hinata to get a private apartment was that she can freely do whatever she wanted without anyone telling her to stop or anyone spying on her. She usually came here to think but meditation was another part of training and in order to do so, a person needs to sit and listen to the surroundings in a quiet place. Meditation is not only for clearing the human mind and soul from troubles and burdens, but it was for increasing the human chakra level too. Though Hinata always failed to achieve the goal of meditation; her troubles and burdens would never go away and her chakra level stayed the same and she thought that something was seriously wrong with her.

So it wasn't surprising for her to go to Kurenai-sensei and tell her this. Kurenai was always a nice, caring woman and understood the reason behind Hinata's failing meditation. She said that if a person who is burdened against his will and has lots of goals, it is difficult for him to achieve the goal of meditation. At that time she was young and she couldn't understand about soul burden but now she did. Though she thankful to Kurenai for giving her a new definition of meditation.

Imagination.

A thing that was easy to do but hard to put in real life. A thing that everybody enjoyed and it was helpful for Hinata as she always liked to do these kinds of things. For months she did that and enjoyed and realized that it made her fairly happier.

But one day, she just thought that if she tried to put these things in real life, it will become even more beneficial. And then, her apartment began to get more changes; seals of different sorts all around the place, hiding secret rooms, chambers and safes, new kind of poisons that the medic nins didn't knew the cure of, new kind of medicines that even Tsunade never head of and her favorite, a new kind of explosives that were difficult of detect and can blow even larger than a normal explosive tag.

But she was always afraid to use things like that in real life and outside her apartment. One day, she dig out the courage to put a new medicine into her bag when going to the Chuunin Exams but that small bottle of special remedy that she had worked on for a six whole months, was thrown away into the garbage by the medical ninjas who took Kiba away for treatment when he was beaten up by Uzumaki Naruto.

But now, she didn't really care who got hurt and who got healed, this time she needed to find a way in her darkening life. So it wasn't surprising as she stepped into the hidden chamber and turned a light. The crates and jars of raw materials were neatly put away in a corner. A smile graced her lips as she turned towards a hidden closet on the wall. Making a few hand seals, she turned the defensive jutsu off and opened the closet. The first two shelves were lined with weapons such as kunais and shurikens. She picked two boxes of the basic weaponry and bent down to blow some dust of a couple of chests.

She picked one and bit her finger. She dropped some blood on the chest and it glowed a little before she opened it.

Bottles of medicines, drugs, poisons and chakra boosters lied there. A small relieved smile graced her lips as she picked several of them and shut the chest again, wiping the blood off. The chest glowed again and sealed itself.

She put it away and picked another. After repeating the procedure, she opened it and took out her special explosives.

These weren't tags or papers, but small spheres that looked beautiful and enchanted… like marbles. Some were blue with yellow tints in it and many more combinations. In real, the cover held a liquid that when broken and mixed with the core will blow up and the core gave a bigger blast. She had the idea when she saw some kids playing with marbles and had mused over the scene sadly in her apartment, wishing her life was like that.

She scoffed slightly trying her best not to daydream too much and after helping herself, shut the chest and put it away.

After she hid everything away just like the way it was before, she walked towards her bed and sat down with a huff. She dragged her bag onto her lap and looked towards the clock. There was half an hour left to go to the gate. She put some of her stuff in her bag and then walked towards the full length mirror. She sighed loudly at her reflection and took off her jacket and threw it away in the corner. She looked at her waist.

She needed to carry more stuff now and her jacket was just in the way. She remembered Tenten wearing a bigger belt around her waist to carry more weaponry. She nodded at her reflection and turned away towards her closet again.

After five minutes of rummaging through it wildly in excitement, she at last found out what she was looking for. A huge yellow belt with hundreds of pockets in it, she exhaled in relief and wore it on her petite waist by wrapping it around three to four times.

After putting all her weaponry in her belt, she stretched and picked up her bag. She put it on and looked towards the clock; ten minutes left.

Maybe she should go now and get a pastry on the way. She also needed to buy a bento box for her journey; the last thing she wanted was to get starved in her mission.

She walked out of the apartment and locked the door. She went out of the building and started to walk towards the nearest bakery.

After buying and packing her stuff and buying a granola bar instead of a pastry, she started to walk towards the Konoha gate. She swallowed the bar down in a couple of hasty bites and pocketed the wrapper before leaning against the nearby wall, waiting for the sand siblings to come.

After waiting for a couple of minutes, Hinata spotted the blond and the Kazekage, walking towards her in silence.

Hinata thought that it was silly of Tsunade to get them an escort. They both were perfect ninjas! They even beat up the Akatsuki in one way! She inwardly sighed and straightened up from her position before walking out of the door after giving them a sideway glance.

She slipped her hands in her trouser's pockets and started to walk gloomily towards the sand village without another word.

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