Disclaimer-I do not own Naruto but i do own this story and any OC's. This is a completely original story idea in the world of Naruto. Any similarity or relevance to another work is completely coincidental and i apologise.
Authors Note1- I am a very lazy writer and i don't have much time to write. i can only write on the weekdays due to work on the weekends and i have other things to do besides writing fan-fiction. so i may only get about one chapter out per week if that. i know this is long time to wait and i apologise in advance.
Authors Note2- One thing i believe is that if you have time to read a story you can review it. even if it is a simple OK or this sucks. that's all good. all reviews are appreciated but longer more detailed ones are more appreciated so please review if you are going to read. also any ideas or comments toward the story are fine. any ideas that you have to make it better or on something i could add or even a new storyline. there is no guarantee i will use it but i will give credit where credit is due so PLEASE REVIEW if your going to read it. i don't care how long it has been out, just please review the most current chapter or all of them if you prefer. If for any reason you wish to get in contact with me my email is in my profile. i don't generally check span so if it ends up in there i am sorry but i will not reply.
Better Summary- okay. this is pretty much a hinata fic. so any haters out there will prob. not like it. it takes place after sasuke left the village but before naruto went on his journey. i am going to try my best to keep there personalities the same but there is no guarantee. and as for hinata please don't review and say she isn't quiet or shy enough. i have only watched the English anime up to shortly before naruto leaves and from what i can tell hinata is quiet and shy but mostly only around naruto. other than that she generaly speaks her mind. this is rated M for safety. there will be some violence in later chapters and swearing
Authors Note3- I know about where i am going and whats going to happen and i can say it should be a long story. still any ideas or plot lines that you think i should add just tell me in a review or e-mail for my direct yes, no or maybe. no guarantee i will use it but i may consider. and finally for any grammar and spelling comments i tried my best to use the appropriate words and spellings.
Okay. my rant is out of the way so here is the story. i hope you enjoy it.
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The sun began to peak out over the horizon as nearly every bird in the Hidden Leaf Village began to sing as loud as they could, trying to tell everyone of the beautiful day that awaited them. The people of the Leaf began to roll and turn in bed, unable to escape those loud, wonderful and sweet sounds that pierced the walls of their homes, sounds that could be heard for miles upon miles, sounds that brought joy, love and happiness to peoples lives, sounds that could make even the most stubborn and cold-hearted person cry, and sounds that would be the beginning of one the worst days of a young woman's life.
"HINATA!" someone yelled from the door right outside of her room. She opened her eyes in her mind, trying to think who was yelling her name at this hour. "It sounded like Neji, but why would he be waking me up this early?"Hinata thought.
"HINATA! WAKE UP ALREADY!" he yelled a little louder. "It is Neji." She opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling of her room. "It's already passed five. You're going to be late for. . . . " She put her pillow over her head and drowned out the last of Neji's words. "Why in the world is he waking me up so early. It's Sunday and I have the day off from training. He probably still wants me to train anyway. Ugh, well I may as well get up. Now that I am awake, thanks to him."
She through her pillow across the room and sat up in bed, beginning to stretch. After a semi loud yawn, she through her legs off the sides of her bed and stood up, nearly falling over in the process. "I guess I am not as awake as I thought." She giggled as she walked over to her window and thrust it open, feeling the light breeze blow through her hair. The birds were still happily singing away. "It's such a beautiful sound, almost enchanting. Well, I guess getting up early does have its advantages. To be able too here the birds, makes it worth it. You can never hear them like this during the day due to all the commotion of the village." She smiled as one of the smaller birds landed on a tree right outside her window. She held out her finger hoping it would come to her. It stared for a moment before letting out a chirp and then flying away toward the sun. She smiled once again and went to get dressed.
As she was leaving her room, she heard Neji doing his morning exercises in the training yard. "I should go see what Neji wanted. It may have been important," she looked toward the kitchen and smiled. "But first I am going to get a little breakfast."
She started toward the training grounds with a bowl of rice, eating it as she went. By the time she made it to the grounds she finished off most of it. She sat the bowl down and walked out to Neji who was too involved with his training to notice her. "Wow. It is amazing that he can do this every day so early in the morning. He never takes a day off and is always working hard to make himself better than he already is," She watched him for a moment."He reminds me of Naruto-kun. Just like Neji he is always training to make himself better, never letting anything stand in his way and always pushing forward, no matter how hard a challenge was. Hmm," She looked toward the ground."But me on the other hand, I don't do nearly the amount of training they do. And I am no where near there level of strength. I want to be just like them, to be able to have their determination and skill, to not be A.. A failu. . . ."
"Hinata?" She looked up quickly. Neji was looking at her with a questioning and stupefied look. "What are you still doing here? Didn't you have training early this morning with Kiba?" Neji asked confused. She just looked back at him with a blank face. Her eyes then widened.
"OH NO! I completely forgot about that," she said as she ran toward the entrance of the Hyuga estate. Neji closed his eyes and gave a little smirk before going back to own training.
"Kiba is going to kill me for being this late. I said I would meet him at five-thirty and its already," she took a quick glance at the sun's position. "Going for seven, I can't believe I forgot something this important. And I was the one who made the training session." She opened the door to the estate and headed for their meeting place in the forest. "I thought it was strange for Neji to be waking me up this early. I completely forgot I even asked him to do it. Ugh. I am definitely not a morning person."
Hinata made it to their designated training spot about seven minutes later. She took a minute to look around and see if Kiba was still there. There were signs that someone had been training recently, mainly a few broken trees and kunai laying around. "It doesn't look like Kiba is still here. He probably did some training and when I didn't show up he must have left, can't say I blame him. It's been about two hours." She looked toward the ground and let out a sigh. "Well I might as well leave and see if Kiba is in town. If he is, I can apologize and see if he still wants to do some training."
She began to walk out of the forest when someone through multiple kunai at her. She barely had any time to react but still nearly evaded them by jumping back and then pulling out one of her own kunai to block the rest, but she was moving too slowly and didn't know where the attack came from. "This isn't good! I don't know where that attack came from and I barley dodged. If I don't find the attacker quick, it will be all over. I'll have to use my Byakugan!" She took a quick glance around the area before putting her hands together and saying "Byaku . . . , " but she was too late. There was now a kunai directly on her throat, whoever it was had snuck up from behind her. "That's it . . . It's all over for me. I am going to die. But . . . I can't die now. I still have so many things left to do with my life. So many dreams that I haven't made a reality and . . . I still have to tell Naruto-kun how I feel. I . . . I don't want to die."
"Heheh," Hinata's eyes widened. This was it. She was going to die. All that was left was for the kunai to rip her throat open . . . but it never came. Instead the kunai was removed from her throat and she could hear chuckling. "You know Hinata. You would have been so dead. You never even put up a fight and that look on your face was absolutely priceless. Hahaha."
Hinata was in awe. She thought she was about to die and he was just laughing about it. "I can't believe he would do something like that to me. I thought I was going to die!" She turned around to see her almost killer on the ground just laughing away. "Well it's nice to see he's enjoying himself." Hinata was furious. She would have to thank of a way to get him back.
"How could you do that to me KIBA?" she said with emphasis on his name, but he wasn't paying attention. He was still on the ground laughing over what he would call a joke. "KIBA" she said to try and get his attention but to no avail. "KIBA." She said a bit louder this time. He managed to stop laughing, long enough to be able to glance up at her. He knew right away she was angry from the look on her face. He decided he should probably apologize or face her wrath.
"Okay, look Hinata. I'm sorry for scaring you like that but. . . . " He said as nicely as he could before Hinata cut him off.
"Scare me! I thought I was going to DIE. I was terrified, not scared and you were laughing about it. If I didn't dodge the kunai, I could have really been hurt!" She said in a very angry tone. Kiba was speechless. He had never seen Hinata like this. She was never angry and she was usually quiet, even around him.
"Okay, okay already. I guess that was a bit overboard but I said I was sorry and anyway. I was out here forever waiting for you to show up. I was just about to leave when I noticed you were coming. Since we came out here to train, I decided to hide and attack you with a couple of kunai. I knew you would be able to dodge them and the whole kunai on the throat thing. Well . . . that was just for fun." Kiba said trying to explain his actions. Hinata just stared at him for a moment before looking at the ground deep in thought.
"Well, I did make him wait awhile for me. But still, he didn't have to do that. I really thought I was going to die. Then again we did come out here to train. And the kunai, even if they had hit me, it wouldn't have been vital." Hinata kept in thought while Kiba stared back at her. He decided to say something before she finished thinking.
"Okay, listen Hinata. Why don't we just call it even and go start training?" He suggested. She looked back up at him and thought for a second before deciding that would be fair enough.
"All right then. Lets go train," She told Kiba. She couldn't hold a grudge on her teammate. Kiba was just happy that he got off so easy because if that were Shino in her place he would be in major trouble right now.
They decided to do A five hour training session before breaking for lunch at which time they said their goodbyes.
"See you later Hinata. We can train some more tomorrow if we don't get a mission." Kiba said while he left the forest to go get some lunch. Hinata waved goodbye to him until he was out of view. She had decided to stay in the forest and train a little while longer before going to get some lunch herself.
"Kiba really put me through some training today, A lot more then usual. Probably because I made the training session. He must think that he is going too easy on me if I start to make training sessions now instead of him," she sat on a nearby log looking up at the birds flying by when Shino crossed her mind. "It's to bad Shino wasn't here instead of on a mission, so that he could help me train as well. Training goes so much better with three people instead of two, but I am still very grateful to Kiba for training with me. I will make it up to him somehow. I still can't believe I yelled at him like I did. That wasn't like me at all. I guess I will doubly make it up to him, even though he terrified me like he did. Lets see, he just left so I still may be able to catch him. I think I will buy him some lunch."
Hinata began to try and catch up with Kiba but he was a lot farther ahead of her then she had first thought. She reached the end of the forest and still no Kiba. "He must have already gone into town," she thought while her stomach suddenly growled and made her blush even though no one was around. "Well if I see him, I will treat him but right now I am going to go to Ichiraku's ramen stand Hopefully Naruto-kun will be there, but then again if he is there. What will I say to him? I don't want to get tongue tied or worse, faint," she at the village for a moment before deciding. "Well even if he is there he probably wont talk to me so it won't really matter." She then headed off into the village toward Ichirakus.
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The Hokage's office
Tsunade is sitting in her office awaiting for the just recently summoned Neji to arrive. "I hope he gets here soon. This can't wait too much longer," She said while sitting at her desk. About ten more minutes go by before. "DAMN," she yelled aloud while obliterating her desk to pieces with one hit. "Where the FUCK is HE!" she yelled. There was then a knock on her door. "Come in." She said in an angry tone. Neji then opened the door rather hesitantly and stayed in the doorway. After hearing Tsunade yell. He didn't want to get to close. Tsunade looked at Neji relieved that he had finally arrived "Ah Neji. It is about time."
Neji looked at what was left of the Hokage's desk wishing he had gotten here earlier. "What happened to your desk?" he asked already knowing it was her taking out her anger due to him being late.
"Oh that. Don't worry about it. I have something much more important to discuss with you. Now close the door and have a seat."
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Hinata had just arrived at Ichiraku's. She looked around for a moment seeing if Naruto was there but it didn't appear like he was. She was about to go in when someone called her name from the distance.
"Hinataaa, heyyyyy. Hold on a minute." Said a very hyperactive ninja that she had just been looking for. He ran up next to her a little out of breath. "Hey Hinata. If you are going into Ichiraku's, lets both go in and eat together." Naruto said to her with a big smile that he always has.
"Naruto-kun wants to . . . eat . . . with me. This is just like a dream come true." She swallowed and took a deep breath before managing to get out an answer "Umm. . . well . . . okay." She said while pressing her fingers together and blushing.
"Great. Then lets go." Naruto answered back. He then proceeded to grab her hand and drag her in there. She was now on the verge of fainting. "Naruto-kun is . . . holding my hand." She thought while her face grew as red as a tomato.
"Hey old man," Naruto said to Teuchi (the owner of the ramen stand) with a big smile, while still dragging Hinata behind him. Finally letting her go after he sat down. "I'm not going to be able to take much more of this. Naruto-kun was holding my hand and he's going to eat with me. This is like a dream, but should I sit next to him. I want to but I don't know if I can handle it." She decided to be brave and have a seat next to him even though that might be the end of her little lunch with Naruto.
"Oh, hi Naruto. The usual right? And what can I get for your friend here." Teuchi said with a big smile for his favorite customer.
"Yeah. The usual for me," he replied to Teuchi before looking over at Hinata. She almost lost it. "What do you want Hinata?"
She had to take a moment before the question even registered or the fact that he was talking to her. "What . . . oh me . . . I'll have . . . umm . . . miso please." Hinata said to Teuchi in a soft shy voice.
"All right. Coming right up." he replied to both of them before turning around and throwing a batch of fresh noodles in a pot to cook. Hinata looked over at Naruto. He had a huge grin on his face, like he had just won the lottery. They got their noodles a couple minutes later and Naruto's grin got even wider. Hinata couldn't help but smile and laugh when he dived right into the noodles not waiting for it to cool and burning his tongue. Even though only a couple minutes passed she was having the time of her life. "Nothing could ruin this perfect moment."
"So Hinata, I don't see you around the village much. Where do you go off to?" Naruto asked with a face full of noodles "Except that." She thought. "Not a conversation. I had hoped that he would just eat with me and then leave. I didn't want him to talk because I can never talk back to him. Well I am just going to have to be brave." Hinata looked him right in the eye and she knew she was in trouble.
"Well . . . umm . . . I . . . that is. . . ." She couldn't manage to form a full sentence but it didn't matter anyway because Naruto had turned away from her and his face was in his bowl. He was slurping it up like there was no tomorrow. Again. Hinata couldn't help but laugh.
"Well that's all I got time for." he said after he finished slurping. "I have to get back to training. See you later old man. Bye Hinata. It was fun eating with you." he said and was gone before Hinata had a chance to open her mouth and try to form the word bye.
"Bye Naruto. Make sure you come back now." Teuchi said to an already long gone Naruto. Hinata finished up her ramen and said bye to Teuchi. It was time for her to also get back to training but before that she wanted to find Kiba to see if she could buy him lunch. "His house is probably my best bet." She started off. "I can't believe I actually managed to eat lunch with Naruto. That was great. To bad he had to leave so soon. Oh well. I am just happy to spend what time I can with him." She got to Kiba's house and knocked on the door but no one answered. "It looks like everyone is gone." She knocked again but still no answer. Oh well. I will just have to bye him lunch some other time. I guess I will head back to the forest and train." Hinata was just beginning to leave Kiba's when he popped out in front of her.
"Hey Hinata," Kiba said. Hinata about jumped a mile. "What are you doing here? Looking for me right." Hinata did a double take before answering.
"Uh . . . yeah. I was wondering if I could buy you some lunch. I mean . . . For me yelling at you and . . . helping me train." She said kind of shyly. It was almost as if she was asking him out on a date.
"Lunch? Yeah sure, why not. I haven't eaten yet. Do you have any place in mind, cause I feel like getting dumplings?" he said without a second thought.
"Dumplings sound good to me." Hinata replied
"Lets go then." And with that said they left to find a dumpling shop. "I am glad I found him. Well, he actually found me but either way I am happy. It's the least I can do for him since he helped me train today."
They found a good stand about four minutes later and ordered some dumplings before sitting down. Hinata took a quick glance at Kiba. "He seems to be really enjoying himself even though he is just eating dumplings." She smiled and took a bite of hers. Kiba looked over at Hinata this time.
"Well. You seem to be enjoying yourself," Hinata looked back up at Kiba and he gave her a smile. She returned it. They finished eating their dumplings in silence due to neither of them knowing what to say to the other. Kiba finally broke it.
"Hey Hinata. Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?" he asked while looking at her with sad yet serious eyes.
"Uh . . . no. I don't mind. Go ahead." She replied before looking toward the ground. "I wonder what he's going ask. He doesn't normally ask me if he can ask something. He just goes right out and asks." She took another quick glance at him. He was also staring at the ground now.
"Well. It's about . . . your life. I mean. . . ." She looked back at him once again. "He looks like he is at a loss for words." She thought
"I just wanted to know about . . . what happened when you were younger. About the Hyuga estate I mean . . . you were the heiress, weren't you?" Kiba asked rather hesitantly.
Hinata just stared at the ground not really enthusiastic about the conversation subject. "We never have talked about my younger days as the heiress. It's just natural that Kiba would be curious but I wish he had asked something else." She thought."Yes," she said rather blandly. "I was the heiress but . . . not anymore."
Kiba looked at her with a sad smile. "What happened? I mean," he took a moment to thank his words through not wanting to offend her. "You were the first daughter of the head. That's how it works right. The first born becomes heir or heiress."
Hinata just continued to stare at the ground not really sure how to answer his question. She didn't really like to talk about her younger days what with her father pretty much abandoning her and the kidnapping. It was really tough for her. "Well . . . that's generally how it works . . . but my father didn't thank I was . . . good enough. So he left me under the care of Kurenai sensai, not caring what became of me. He valued my sister much more than me and so my sister became the heiress in my place." She said with overwhelming sadness.
Kiba looked back at the ground as well. He wished he had not asked. He didn't like to bring up her past because he knew it was a rough subject but he wanted to know what had happened. "I'm sorry Hinata." he said apologetically. "I didn't know . . . But that's not right," Kiba had become a bit angry now. "To just abandon your own kid like that. Who does he thank he is!?" Kiba stood up with his fist clenched. "That just makes me so mad!"
Hinata stood up and put her hand on his shoulder, still looking at the ground. Kiba glanced over surprised. "Thanks for your concern Kiba but don't worry about it. That happened along time ago and I am closer with my father now then I was then. He respects me a lot more for who I am." She said before looking at Kiba and giving him a fake smile. He knew she was faking it but he returned a smile of his own and nodded.
"Well Hinata I'm going to have to get going. Lady Hokage gave me a mission a while back that I have been trying to put off but she got on my case and said she would put me back in the academy if I failed it." he said imitating the Hokage. "I will see you tomorrow sometime right."
Hinata smiled and nodded and Kiba did the same before heading off to do whatever his mission was. Hinata sat back down not sure what she wanted to do. "I don't really want to go back to the forest and train now, not in the mood I'm in." She looked around hoping to find some idea of what to do before standing up. "I guess I will just head back home for now. Maybe I can help Neji." And with that thought in mind she started off to her home.
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Back in The Hokage's office
"Are you serious Lady Hokage," Neji said boiling with anger at what she had just told him. "But that's preposterous. They can't do that. They don't have the authority."
"That's what I thought," Tsunade said agreeing with Neji's statement. "But they pulled up some really old records about previous agreements and lawful terms. It's completely out of my hands. There is nothing I can do." She said turning around in her chair and staring at the birds flying by.
"There must be something that you can do. I mean you are the Hokage. They can't just do this without your permission" he said furiously. Tsunadejust looked at him and shook her head.
"The only thing I can do is send more Ninja with her." Neji looked at her with a pleading look. She knew right away what he was thanking. "Neji I'm sorry but you can't go. You already have a mission to deal with, and there are no other ninjas available that could go. As I said, this is completely out of my hands." Neji just stared, not believing what had just happened. He started to leave the office, when she called back to him. "Listen Neji. I know you are upset but don't do anything that you might regret. And also, I forbid you to tell her anything that I have just told you. I have to be the one to give her the details of what has happened. Now, if you could please go and tell her that I have summoned her." Neji just looked back and bowed before leaving her office furious with what has happened. "I'm sorry Neji but this is something that Hinata will have to do on her own."
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Authors Note4- Okay. so this is the first chapter and a little boring but hey most stories are in the first few chapters. i am going to try and make every chapter about the same length so you know what to look forward to. PLEASE REVIEW. thanks.