Summary: "AnBu Owl, your mission as stated annihilate the uprising Hyuuga clan, leave none alive. Any left alive aside from afore mentioned Hyuuga heiress, will be seen as disloyalty and you will be immediately dispatched as a Nuke Nin. Do not disappoint us.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto

Chapter Eight

Genin Exams

Hinata paused as her name was called; she swallowed thickly her eyes wide like a deer's.

"Hyuuga Hinata?" Iruka called again, Sasuke frowned thoughtfully before walking over to one of his few if only friend.

"Hinata, why aren't you going up?" Hinata winced at Sasuke's voice.

"I...I don't know if I'm ready." She whispered, Sasuke crossed his arms with a glare.

"That's bull and you know it, Hinata. You've trained with Itachi-Nii, and you can hold your own pretty good." Hinata smiled softly.

"Arigato Sasuke-kun." Sasuke turned his head scowling to cover the miniscule amount of heat that had rushed to his cheeks.

"Tch, whatever just go." Hinata nodded smiling hugging him as she left the room, oblivious to two glares from a certain pinkette and blond.

"I-Iruka-sensei?" Iruka smiled at her ruffling her longish hair before walking her to the testing room, where the Hokage would watch her performance as well. Why she didn't know, but Itachi had warned her the Hokage would show up to watch certain students.

She only assumed she was watched because she was the Hyuuga heiress, and one of the two last Hyuuga.

"Okay, just make three clones and you'll be done." The Hokage stated, Hinata gulped before Mikoto's instructions came back into her head. Take three deep breathes and nod. Doing so she focused on fixing the right amount of chakra into the jutsu, three clones appeared moments later.

"Good job, here's your leaf village head band." Iruka handed her the strip of cloth with the metal leaf engraved into a sheet of metal. Hinata then promptly ran from the room, head band clutched in her right hand. She wasn't allowed to go back into the room, so she waited outside. Fiddling with the head band slightly, where was she going to put it anyway?

"Done already Hina?" She yelped the head band flying into the face of Itachi Uchiha.

"Ah! G-Gomenasai! Gomenasai!" She apologized repeatedly, Itachi sighed.

"You shouldn't apologize for becoming startled Hina." Hinata blushed looking down.

"I t-told y-you n-not to call me that." She whispered, before taking the offered headband.

"Why haven't you put on your headband?" he asked crouching in front of her, Hinata ducked her head behind her bangs.

"I...I don't k-know where to put it." Raising a brow Itachi finger the edges of the cloth, she couldn't wear it in her hair, as her hair was kept out of her face just fine. He didn't want to see her pace it around her waist as most Kunochi were prone to do, besides with her jacket no one would see.

He looped it around her neck watching he metal glint in the sun.

"There." And secured the knot, Hinata blushed before nodding.

"Arigato Itachi-Kun." Itachi nodded.

"It's good that you passed." He commented watching the new Genin exiting the academy to the arms of their family and parents.

"Y-yeah, I n-need to b-be strong." She can't let anyone down again, her baby sister died because she couldn't protect her. She bit her lip before Sasuke arrived, Mikoto and Fugaku had arrived around the same time he had exited the academy.

"I see you both passed." Fugaku commented, Hinata could see his eyes warmth for his son, pride was there, but he was very proud of his son she could tell. The way he looked at Sasuke, was the way Hiashi had never looked her way before.

"Did you expect anything less?" Sasuke commented with something close to a smile.

"Let's go home, I have dinner waiting." Mikoto stated leading the family away, Hinata paused briefly. 'That boy over there, on the swing why is he alone?'

"Hinata?" Mikoto asked, Hinata looked over.

"Are you okay?" She asked, Hinata nodded before asking.

"W-why is that boy over there, a-all alone?" Mikoto frowned.

"I assume that he is an orphan Hinata, now let's go home. I haven't made the cinnamon rolls yet~." Hinata nodded even though she wanted to know more about the boy, she knew she would have to wait.

"Okay." Dinner was quiet but from what Hinata knew and had seen in the past five years this was a good thing. The table was even full, which it rarely was.

The next day both her and Sasuke were dropped off at the academy, once inside as early as the academy allowed Hinata began to sketch in one of her notebooks.

It was another picture of her mother and sister, or at least she thought the girl was her sister. With long brown hair and a soft child-like face, it only made her even angrier at her inability to protect her sister.

"Naruto!~" Hinata looked away from her drawing, her eyes wide in shock as Sakura and other girls proceeded to move in on the blond boy from before. Before that however, she came to realize that Naruto had been knocked into Sasuke.

Forming a lip lock.

"A-ah.." Hinata could barely form any words past the shock that had registered in her brain. Sasuke's first kiss was another boy!

Sasuke gave her a wicked glare.

"You will not tell Nii-san anything, got it?" though Hinata knew he wouldn't do anything she nodded, with a squeak. Before a bubble of laughter built in the back of her throat, the look on his face was too much for her to stop.

"G-g-g-Gomenasai! B-but y-your f-face Sasuke-Kun!" she managed to squeak out between her laughter.

Author's note: Yeah sort of fillerish, but it's necessary I swear! Also sorry about the lack of update and shortness of chapter! My laptop is now officially busted, so I couldn't get as much as I wanted done.