The many trials of love

Hinata

Hinata softly kissed Naruto goodbye. They'd just come back from another date, this time at the cinema. It was now two weeks since they had first started going out, and both couldn't be happier. Every day when she lay down to sleep she thanked whatever kind force it was that was out there that had been responsible for bringing her and Naruto together. Each time she was with him she felt complete, at the beginning she had just missed him, now she felt like a part of her was missing whenever he wasn't by her side. She felt sick whenever they were apart and counted the hours until she could see him again, she tried not to be too clingy but the feeling inside her that needed him, wanted him, loved him, was to great to ignore. There truly was a fire burning for him inside her heart and if he was ever taken from her, it would be extinguished, and she was sure, with it's death, her life also would be taken.

So she kissed him goodbye with an aching heart and mentally kept check of the hours until she could see him again.

'Goodbye Naruto' she whispered softly.

'Goodbye Hina' he murmered back, gently touching her cheek, he turned and left. His heart dragging on the ground as he walked.

Naruto

Ever since they had started going out he felt like he had changed somehow. Become more serious and yet more lively as well, because now he had a beautiful reason to live. The feeling he had felt before for Sakura had just been lust, he knew it for certain now. Because the feeling he felt for Hinata overshadowed it completely. It was in a different league entirely. He couldn't imagine living without her, his shy, beautiful, fierce Hina. Once or twice he had tried to explain to Sasuke how he felt, but had given up. Whenever he tried to explain, the words just sounded cheesy, yet they were 100% true. So he kept them to himself and carried on as normal, secretly loving Hinata until he was sure his heart would burst.

Hiashi

Hiashi watched furious, as his daughter kissed Naruto goodbye. Why hadn't he been informed? How dare she go behind his back and date someone of so low rank as Naruto. Personally he had nothing against the boy, but a Huyaga dating a nobody was unheard of. The boy belonged to no special clan and besides she was already betrothed to someone else. He had to stop this relationship before things got out of hand. Just how long had it been going on for? he wandered angrily as he stormed over to the house and knocked on the door. He had to speak to his daughter straight away and make things right.

Hinata

Hinata entered the house and was just about to go upstairs to her bedroom when she heard someone knock loudly on the door. Her heart sank, please don't let it be father she thought pleadingly, please. He couldn't be back yet, it was too early. But as she opened the door and came face to face with her fuming father, all false hope left her and from that moment onwards she knew things weren't going to go well for her and Naruto at all.

'The sitting room, now' Hiashi muttered through clenched teeth. He would hear his daughter out first, but in his mind he was already forming possible ways to break her and Naruto up.

Hinata nodded meekly and walked slowly into the sitting room, dropping down heavily onto the sofa. With a horrible sinking feeling, she prepared herself for what was about to come.

'WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU THINKING?' Hiashi stormed, his eyes locked on his daughter, not allowing her to avoid his gaze. She had to understand how serious this was. Going behind his back. It was unheard of. Where was the obedient child he knew?

'I'm sorry father' Hinata held her fathers gaze without flinching. And she truly was sorry that she had had to go behind his back with Naruto, but she wasn't sorry about going out with him at all. Not in the slightest, and if her father thought he could break them up. Then he was dead wrong. There was no way she was giving up what she had without a fight.

Hiashi stared at her, studying her carefully. He saw apology in her eyes, but not the kind he wanted, it was a defiant apology. She was sorry for causing him upset, he understood that, but there was something else, and he had a pretty good idea what it was.

'But your not sorry you went out with him?' he asked, voicing his thoughts.

Hinata nodded, still holding his gaze with a quiet defiance that shocked herself and Hiashi.

He frowned and allowed himself a moment to go over the situation.

'So, you will continue to go out with him despite what i say?' he concluded, speaking slowly as though thinking each word through carefully. His voice full of disbelief.

Again Hinata nodded and Hiashi's eyes narrowed with displeasure. 'We shall see about that' he growled menacingly, 'you are already betrothed to someone else in our clan, the Huyaga blood must remain pure, that is why we cannot have an outsider soiling our blood and tainting the purity of the clan. This betrothal has been arranged since your birth i will not allow you to date someone who belongs to no special clan, which means they would not be able to benefit our descendants in any way, especially as you have already been promised to a most esteemed member of the head family.' Hiashi shook his head furiously. 'I ban you from seeing Uzumaki Naruto ever again! If i so much as hear of you speaking with him then you will be grounded straight away and will not leave this house until the day you are finally married. Do you understand?' He glared down at his daughter ignoring the twangs of guilt in his heart for the pain he was most inevitably causing her with his actions. Nonetheless it had to be done.

Hinata stared up at him her eyes full of tears. How? How could he do this to her? she loved Naruto, couldn't he see that? Slowly she got to her feet her hands balled up into fists, fighting against the urge to shout and scream she told her father what he wanted to hear. That she wouldn't associate with Naruto again, all the while though her mind was formulating possible ways of disobeying her fathers orders. But no matter what she came up with everything could be counteracted. She couldn't think of a single way she could safely continue to see Naruto without her fathers detection, and even if she managed that. What happened when she had to start preparations to marry a man she didn't love? She needed to find a way to either convince her father to let her be with Naruto. or a way to escape him forever. Which probably meant leaving the village! Her vision blurred as more tears filled her eyes. She needed to get away from the house, from him. She needed some time to think.

Just as she turned away Hiashi touched his daughters shoulder.

'Hinata' he said softly, 'I am sorry to cause you sadness, but it must be done. I cannot allow it, do you understand? Besides you do not truly love him. You are still to young to know what love is, eventually you will come to understand that, i am sure of it.'

Hinata turned to look at her father, her eyes hard with anger and pain.

'Yes father i understand' she replied, her voice emotionless. Understand that you do not understand love and never will. She added in her mind, and with that she turned and left the house, she needed to find Naruto.