"Come at me faster, with more anger!" Lee shouted over their training session.
Hinata flew at Lee with the gentle fist.
He easily blocked it, propelling her across the abandoned field.
"You alright?" Lee asked concerned reaching out his hand.
"Yeah.." Hinata said regretfully, this wasn't as easy as she had hoped.
"I don't feel anger from you," Lee said, "Why not?"
Hinata thought about it, why didn't she get angry when fighting?
She was never the fighting type, she never enjoyed it.
"I have no reason to be mad at anybody." she concluded quietly.
"There HAS to be a reason for you to get mad," he looked at her seriously, "You've never felt anger before?"
"Well," Hinata bit her lip as she dug into her deepest memories searching for anger like a buried treasure. "No…" she sighed.
Lee's bottom lip stuck out, his brow knitted. He appeared to be pouting, what Lee would call his "thinking face". He trying to figure out how to make Hinata angry so she would come with more focus and energy.
Hinata watched him as he thought, and started thinking herself,
"He's sort of cute like that…wait! What am I thinking?" She frowned to herself, she decided to ask herself, like a police investigation, in the dark room with a single light, the detective Hinata asked skeptically.
"Do you really still like Naruto?"
"What of c-course I do…" she replied to her curiosity.
"I mean, it's obvious he likes Sakura," she thought to herself, "What if he never takes an interest in me?" she thought in panic. She started pointing her two fingers together: an old habit she had never really grown out of.
Lee snapped back to reality, he saw her fingers and immediately pulled her hands apart.
"A respectable ninja never shows their nerve, unless it makes them focus their anger into great energy." he explained.
He looked at her, her face was progressively growing redder and redder until her face was as bright as a ripe strawberry. He wondered why she was blushing when he noticed he was still holding her hands apart. His face immediately became unnerved and red as he quickly withdrew his hands, "Same time tomorrow?" he asked awkwardly as he straightened back up.
"Sure.." Hinata's blush started to fade away as they shifted to another topic, "It's getting late, I should go home now." she decided looking up into the sky that was now a light indigo.
"You did well today." he said encouragingly.
She flushed, "Thank You, Ro- Lee."
She began to walk home and put her hand up in goodbye.
Lee stretched, "Oh!" he said loudly, Hinata flinched at the sudden break in silence.
"I cannot allow you to walk home by yourself Lady Hinata." He grinned broadly, allowing his teeth to shine in the sunset.
"O-okay…" Hinata smiled. She had almost blushed again, but she refused to show it.
He offered his arm to her, it was the logical and polite thing to do when walking a lady home.
She reluctantly looped her arm through his, as they headed for the Hyuga compound.
"So…Lady Hinata?" he started, disliking the silence between them, "Why do you not enjoy fighting?"
"Oh, umm…" Hinata had been startled by the question and had never really thought about it herself.
She appeared to be a sleepwalker, just thinking. He studied her face for any signs of life. Then she suddenly answered quietly, "I don't like…hurting people…" she began, "I have no reason to…"
"You'd rather heal their wounds?" he guessed, "Waiting for someone to show you better days?"
"I…guess…that makes…sense…" she said pausing to think about his words.
They had reached the area just outside the compound. She quickly looped her arm out of his and began to walk towards the house.
"Bye Lady Hinata," he grinned, "See you tomorrow!"
"It's Hinata..."she turned her head around to look at him and smiled, "Just Hinata."
Lee nodded, his smile growing wider if that was even possible.
She chuckled. He was cute.