White Heart Chapter 25: Mother and Daughter, a naruto fanfic

Well I'm back!!! I know the chapter is really late! I'm sorry!!!

But anyway it's here already so please spare me!

As usually the beta for this chapter was Okami-chan so be thankful to her :D

ON WITH IT!

Mother and Daughter

"Oh! The girls are here already!" said the middle aged woman who came out of the small kitchen.

She had dark purple hair and brown eyes; she was slender yet petite, she wasn't much taller than Midori-sempai, and in contrast with her daughter's outfit, hers was simpler and more conservative. She was wearing a simple brown blouse and a pale blue long skirt.

"Girls, this is my mother, Sawamura Tabitha, mom these are Tenten,"

"Good day, nice house" complimented Tenten-chan

"Ino,"

"A pleasure" said the blond

"Sakura,"

"Thanks for receiving us at your house ma'am" added the green eyed

"Hinata, who happens to be my teammate" I only bowed not really knowing what to say "and the falcon is Kohaze, Hinata's escort"

"I'm sorry for crowding your house my lady" said Kohaze to Midori-sempai's mom, landing in front of her and bowing deeply.

"Oh my! I didn't know ninjas had talking animals, aren't you the cute one?!" she said crouching in front of the bird and grabbing with her index and thumb one of his wings, stretching it to see all of its feathers.

"Please, dear lady, don't do that!" pleaded Kohaze trying to free himself.

"We'll be in my room" informed Midori-sempai leading us upstairs together.

"Ok! I'll take some tea and cookies up in a while" stated her mother not letting the hawk go

"That would be great, thanks mom"

"Come on Mister Hawk, let's prepare some tea for the girls" poor Kohaze didn't look like he was enjoying being the 'new' pet of Mrs. Sawamura.

Midori-sempai walked in front of us taking us upstairs where we found four doors close to each other, each leading to a different direction. The white haired opened a door and stood aside waiting

"Please come in, it's not that much, but make yourselves comfortable" she offered.

Her room was amazing. Although it wasn't as large as mine it had lots of things on it: In the middle of the room there was a large round tapestry on the floor that featured all the colors of the rainbow, but was mostly covered by the multiple furniture of the room. The bed was in front of the door across the room, to the left of the door was the wardrobe. Besides the bed was a small desk, lastly but not least in front of the desk was a small tea table with several puffs around it. Every surface featured several stuffed animals and dolls of all kind, and the walls and ceiling had several posters of various cartoons and anime on them. The room and the furniture were painted in pastel tones.

Not only the room yelled 'girly' but it was radically different to mine, which was plain and mostly empty. All the other girls came in checking every corner of the peculiar room (which amazingly didn't felt cramped)

"I have to admit I'm impressed" accepted Ino letting herself drop in one of the puffs "your room is pretty neat"

"It's an honor to be praised by you, thank you" said Midori-sempai entering last and closing the door behind her. Sakura was clearly pissed by this comment and fuming she sat down in a puff across from Ino.

"Let's get working" she said crossing her arms.

"Yeah! Hinata-chan's act!" acknowledged Tenten-chan. I wished they could forget about it.

"So! It's so gotta be a song!" proposed Ino

"Agreed"

"Yep"

"I concur"

They all accepted, it seemed there was no chance for me to have a say about that.

"With her looks and her voice she'll win no doubt" continued the blond.

"Agreed"

"Yep"

"I concur"

After a few seconds of silence they released a little giggle.

"Ano...but..." My looks? I'm not pretty...and my singing is not that good either, just about normal...at best.

"Don't worry, you'll do just fine" said Midori-sempai "and I seriously think that you have a good chance at winning"

"GOOD CHANCE?!" shrieked Sakura "She'll win no doubt"

"Yeah!" added Ino "Like, First Attack Sure Kill, you know?"

"And Naruto-kun will notice her as a girl" when Tenten-chan said this I noticed that Midori-sempai made a gesture of unconformity, but she said nothing.

"We need to get into it if we want it all to work out as we want to" reminded Sakura

"Right, Hinata, have you thought of the song you want to sing?" asked me Ino

"Well, it's not like I want to sing, but, if I have to… I was considering 'Every time we touch' by Cascada"

"Did you bring it?" she asked me "like in a CD or something like that?"

"Ummm...no, sorry, I just heard the song a couple of times and I liked it"

"Geez, how are we supposed to help you select a song if we can't listen to it?" asked Sakura

Suddenly music started to play in the room

I still hear your voice, when you sleep next to me.
I still feel your touch in my dreams.(my dreams)
Forgive me my weakness, but I don't know why
Without you it's hard to survive.

'Cause everytime we touch, I get this feeling.
And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly.
Can't you feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last.
Need you by my side.
'Cause everytime we touch, I feel this static.
And everytime we kiss, I reach for the sky.
Can't you hear my heart beat slow...
can't let you go.
Want you in my life.

Your arms are my castle, your heart is my sky.
They wipe away tears that I cry. (I cry)
The good and the bad times, we've been through them all.
You make me rise when I fall.

'Cause everytime we touch, I get this feeling.
And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly.
Can't you feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last.
Need you by my side.

Midori-sempai was beside the desk with a small stereo beside her "That's the song, right?" she asked smiling "you're lucky its one of my favorites"

"Midori-sempai, thank you" I said honestly.

"Hoh, you seem pretty reliable Midori" accepted Tenten-chan "you always come to the rescue"

"Yeah if you were a guy I'd go out with you" joked Ino winking at her. Midori-sempai blushed madly

"W-w-w-well, thank you" she replied looking down "I just try my best..." it was the first time I had seen her react like that.

"Anyway, focus girls" called Sakura "what do you think of the song?"

"It's not bad" declared Tenten-chan.

"Yeah it's not too shabby" accepted Ino "but..."

"It doesn't directly say ' I love you' anywhere in the lyric" completed Sakura

"Yep"

"But the song says..!" I tried to argue.

"But Naruto won't get it unless you directly say it" argued back Sakura.

"I'll give it to you, it's a good song...but let's see if we can find something else" proposed Ino.

"I think that as long as Hinata is OK with it, the song will work out" commented Midori-sempai.

"But besides the 'kissing' part the song can easily be referring to some relation between friends...love is never even mentioned...just being part of the life of the interpreter. That won't work..." replied Sakura.

A knocking sound came from the door.

"Girls? The tea is here" it was Midori-sempai's mother. My teammate stood up and opened the door

"Thank you mom, I'll take it"

She received the plate with the teapot, cups and a bowl full of cookies. The door closed, came to the table and placed the plate there. With great grace and care she served each coup and passed it to each one of us.

"Ano, excuse me Midori-sempai?" I called

"I told you, you should cut the sempai already. We're teammates now" she reminded me "What do you need?"

"Could you please tell me where the restroom is?" I asked with my cheecks completely red

"Downstairs" she replied without making fun of me "the last door to the right"

"Thanks"

I left the room a little bit ashamed and walked down the stairs as swiftly as possible, reaching the small living room again. I directly crossed the floor to the set of doors that stood on the other side and reached for the one furthest from the stairs. Knocking the door just to be sure, I opened it and let myself inside.

I splashed some water over my face, it was completely cold, but it felt somehow refreshing.

"What am I doing?" Just what in the world..? Were the questions I asked myself, both silently and in a low voice I can't sing, I've never had some proper training at it...I'm going to flunk it completely...what am I going to do if I fail in front of so many people? In front of 'him'!???

"Hina-chan?" Habataku asked me worried

I had to think on something else, calm down, and face it... focusing I made my mind drift to other thoughts, but I was instantly regretting it as my mind was filled with images, sounds, smells and memories of Naruto-kun.

Ne, are you serious dattebayo, Hinata?

I don't want to be a Gennin, I want to be the Hokage! Because a beautiful princess like Hinata-chan deserves to be protected only by the most powerful Hokage of all times!

Not until he apologize to Hinata-chan.

Amazing Hinata-chan!

As settled: you are going to treat me to Ichiraku's tomorrow night.

Nee, Hinata! I've got a great idea! A masterplan! The prank of all pranks!

...not to just like a girl 'cause her looks or her popularity and see pass that…

I was scared! Scared that you would see me like everybody else does. Scared to lose you, of going back to being alone.

I'm Uzumaki Naruto, I like, besides being with Hina-chan of course, ramen; I love to try and compare different kinds of ramen, I hate the 3 minutes I have to wait for the instant ramen to be ready. My dream is to become the most powerful Hokage ever so that the whole village will acknowledge me!

Suddenly that last memory brought another one attached to it. My eyes widened with surprise.

I'm Kawamura Midori, I like peace, helping others, and nature; I dislike war, conflict, and troubles; my dream is to create a world where everyone can smile without worries or sorrow, but I'm realistic and know that I can't create that Utopia, so I'm happy just helping others.

I recalled that at that time I thought that Midori-sempai maybe was coming from a traditional family like mine, that she was forced to train...what other reason would she have to pick the ninja life if it weren't like that? But...now that I had met her mother and seen her house...this was clearly not a family of ninjas...what was going on with her?

"Ara, Hinata-chan is it?" as I walked out of the room and back to the living room I found myself face to face with Mrs. Sawamura. She was holding Kohaze tightly in front of her "is anything wrong? Do you need something? Are you feeling well?" she asked me with a distracted face but a concerned voice

"No! No! No!" I said trying to calm her "I'm felling perfectly fine just had to...use the...restroom" the blood was rushing to my cheeks.

"Ah! That's good" she answered relieved with a small smile "But you know?" she asked me "I'm glad that Midori invited some friends home, it's the first time she has done so, and so many. I was worried because she never invited friends before. I was very surprised!"

This might be my chance! "Sawamura-san! Will you please tell me more? I want to know more about Midori-sempai"

"About my daughter?" she repeated the question "...well, she was a very cheerful baby, and grew up into an active, smiley, happy, curious eyed and at times even somewhat noisy child. But well, I think she was just a normal 2 years old girl at that time..." suddenly her easygoing face became troubled "but not long after she was 3 years old Midori caught some rare sickness, and we had to take her to the hospital. Sadly the doctors didn't know that to do with her and my husband and I had to see how slowly but steadily her condition became worse each day. We even thought our daughter...that we would lose her...Yet! When she was worst and the doctors had given up because she wasn't answering to any treatments… Midori woke up!" she was cheerful again "it was right after that period of time that she decided that she wanted to be a ninja..." Mrs. Sawamura concentrated as she slowly remembered "I think she said something like 'to stop bad things to happen to others' or something like that" she adjusted her holding on Kohaze who was yet again trying to escape. As it seemed impossible the poor falcon released a sigh "Midori became a little bit timid after she came out of the hospital. She was very silent, and somewhat distant to other kids. That's why my husband and I came here to live in the Leaf Village, so that our daughter could be a ninja as she wanted. I remember that she matured very fast, she was always serious and was so self-conscious. She learned to read and write by herself, and also mathematics and lots of other things, she was a very bright child. But still she never had any friends. Not in school, not in the neighborhood, it seemed as if she had no interest in the other kids" she released a sigh too "my husband and I were worried about her, she was a normal girl with us but outside she was a little bit cold to others. Yet when we finally managed to send her to the ninja academy she seemed to befriend an Uchiha boy, I think his name was Itachi. I remember how the teachers used to say that they were both geniuses!" she giggled at this part "but all of a sudden the whole Uchiha clan was killed over the night...only the younger brother of that kid survived...Midori was devastated by this for a couple of days and then she recovered miraculously, with her desire to be a ninja renewed...I hope that kid is ok"

That was...Sasuke-san? I wondered.

"She continued in the academy, and just when she was about to graduate she told us that she had to go to the west, to a very important mission. I was so scared at that time but she said that it was something that only she could do. I was worried even though she sent letters every week. After a few years she came back and finally graduated as a ninja! We were so proud!" she giggled some more "and soon after that all she would talk about was the two of you, her teammates, apparently she really likes you both. But I never imagined she had so many friends! When she came to me yesterday and told me that some friends of her would come here I was very surprised! But I never expected so many cute girls in my house!" her warm smile demonstrated she was truly enjoying our presence. But my mind wasn't with her "Do you want to know something else?" she asked me

"No. Thank you Mrs. Sawamura!" I replied bowing deeply "May I ask one more favor out of you? Could you please lend me my escort back?"

"Oh! My! Yes sure! Bye bye Mr. Hawk" she said handing over Kohaze who's brilliant eyes yelled "Thank you!"

"Come Kohaze!" I said walking directly to the stairs to go up, I opened the door to Midori-sempai's room and…

"Hinata!!! We have selected the song you're going to sing!" the girls sang in chorus.

"N-nani!?"

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