Whiteicewolf: I do not own Naruto
Naruto, Gaara, Haku, and Kimimaro quickly ran to were they heard the scream. They ran to a clearing where they saw a grayish-blondish haired woman wearing a kimono which was purple on the inside and green on the outside (She's wearing what she wore in the anime) and was on the snow covered ground which was now red from her blood. The camellia flowers on the bushes were red as a result from the blood that came out of her body.
"Is she" Naruto asked as he looked at the blood that was on the ground
"She's dead" Haku said as he looked at the woman. Then they all heard a sniffle and turned their heads to see a girl with that was wearing a teal short kimono with a gray turtle neck and short sleeves with a jade-green rope belt around her waist and red shorts, light purple wrist bands and navy blue sandals.
"Hey, who are you" Naruto asked
"I-I-I k-k-killed h-her, the w-woman who t-took h-helped of m-me even thou I-I was h-her e-enemy" the girl said with tears streaming down her face
"What" the boys said
"I killed her, I killed her, I killed her" the girl kept on repeating
"WHY DID YOU KILL HER!" Naruto yelled making the girl snap out of her trance
"IF SHE HELPED YOU THEN WHY DID YOU KILL HER!" Naruto yelled
"YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND!" the girl said before running away.
"HEY, WAIT!" Naruto said and ran after her with Gaara, Kimimaro, and Haku following him
With Hinata, Fu, and Ranmaru
"There are a lot of camellias around here" Hinata said as she looked at the camellias
"Camellias?" Ranmaru asked
"Oh, that's right, you don't know what camellias are. Well, camellias are these white flowers that are growing on that bush" Hinata said as she pointed to one.
"Do you want me to pick one of the flowers for you" Hinata asked Ranmaru
"Um, if you don't mind" Ranmaru said, then Hinata walked up to the bush and picked the flower from it
'Hinata this flower is different from the others. The petals don't fall off one by one, the whole flower falls'
"Here you go Ranmaru" Hinata said as she gave him the flower
"Thank you" Ranmaru said as he took the flower
"Are you okay" Ranmaru asked
"Huh" Hinata said
"Your eyes, they look sad" Ranmaru said as he looked at her
"Don't worry I'm alright" Hinata said
'Hinata you are not weak, I know that you are strong. Don't listen to what the others tell you, remember that you are a strong girl'
Why am I remembering that, Hinata thought
"So should we head back and meet the others" Fu asked
"We should" Hinata said finally snapping out of her thoughts. Then they saw a young boy with short grayish-blondish hair, wearing a kimono with a jade-green inside and a gray outside with sandals and was running.
That was mom's leaf grass whistle I heard before, so that means she's back! He thought as he kept on running to where he heard the sound
"Should we follow him" Fu asked
"Yeah" Hinata said and then they started to run after the kid. They kept on running after the child until they finally found him crying in front of a dead woman.
"Mother!" the boy cried
"Mother why did you have to leave me alone" the boy cried
Flashback
"Mother why did you have to leave me alone" a young Hinata silently cried
"You were the only person that always cared about me, you said you would always be there for me, so why did you have to die" Hinata cried
End flashback
Hinata then walked up to the young boy and hugged him.
"It's okay" Hinata said as she hugged the crying child
"Mother, why did you have to leave me all alone" the young boy cried as he hugged Hinata tighter
"It is okay, to cry over a loss of a loved one, don't worry you're not alone" Hinata said as she hugged him
"I'm not" the boy said
"No, you're not" Hinata said as she hugged him tighter
"How do you know that I'm not alone" the young child asked
"Because you'll be coming with us" Hinata said
"Wait, Hinata, are you sure it's alright" Fu asked
"Don't worry, I'm sure I can convince the others" hinata said as she hugged him
"So, you're coming with us, okay. As long as you're with us we'll never leave you" Hinata said
"You promise" the boy cried
"I promise" Hinata said
'I'm sorry I broke our promise'
I hope this is a promise that won't be broken, Hinata thought as she continued to hug the crying boy
"I'm Yukimaru" the boy said
"My name is hinata" she smiled and continued to hug the crying boy
"It's okay, it's okay" she kept on repeating while hugging Yukimaru
Meanwhile with the others
"Hey Haku can you try to stop her" Naruto asked as he kept on running
"I'll try my best" Haku said and then started making ice form around the girls legs making her stop
"This is" the girl said
"Now, that we've stopped running, answer my question" Naruto said
"Why did you kill her?" Naruto asked
"You wouldn't understand" she replied
"Try us" Naruto said
"It… was… for… the …approval… of…someone" the girl replied
"So you had to kill someone just to get that persons approval!" Naruto yelled making the girl flinch
"Did you want to kill her" Naruto asked
"N-No" she replied
"Then he isn't worth gaining the approval of" Naruto said
"Huh?" she said
"If you are forced to do something that you didn't want to do, then that person isn't worth it!" Naruto yelled
"You don't know what it's like!" she yelled
"You don't know what it feels like to be shunned by everyone!" she said
"To be despised" she said with tears starting to form in her eyes
"We know perfectly well how it feels" Naruto said
"Huh?" she replied
"I don't want to explain" Naruto said
"Why do you want to gain that person's approval" Gaara asked
"It's because, it's because, I want to be just like him, he's so strong, and I wanted to be strong just like him" she said
"So you did this to gain his approval" Gaara asked, the girl nodded a yes
"So do you want to continue killing people to gain his approval" Gaara asked
"NO! I don't want to kill anyone!" She yelled
"You do know if he wanted you to kill her, he will keep on making you kill, and kill, and kill, and kill" Gaara said
"I don't want to kill anymore!" she yelled
"Then stop wanting the approval of the man who will keep on making you kill innocent people" Gaara replied
"But, but" she said
"What", Kimimaro asked
"If I leave I won't have anywhere to go, I don't have a home to return to" she said
"You're coming with us" Naruto spoke
"Naruto, are you sure you want her to come with us" Haku asked
"Don't worry" Naruto said giving them a reassuring smile
"After all, we can't just leave her here" Naruto said
"Can, can I really go with you guys" she asked
"Of course you can, come on we have to meet the others" Naruto said as he turned around and started walking in the other direction they came from
"Others?" she asked as she followed them
"Yeah, we have two more girls and another boy" Kimimaro answered
"Excuse me, but we never got your name" Gaara said
"It's Guren" she replied
"I'm Gaara" Gaara said
"I'm Haku" Haku replied
"I'm Kimimaro" Kimimaro said
"I'm Naruto" Naruto said
"I see them" Naruto said
They looked to where Naruto was looking and they saw Fu, Hinata and Ranmaru, and Hinata seemed to be hugging a young child
"It's okay, it's okay" Hinata kept on repeating as she hugged the crying child
"Mother, why did you have to die" the child cried
"Hinata, who's this" Naruto asked as he walked up to her
"This is Yukimaru, his mother" Hinata motioned towards the direction of the dead woman's corpse
I killed his mother, Guren thought as she looked at Yukimaru
"Naruto, can he come with us" hinata asked as she continued hugging Yukimaru
"Of course, and besides I can't leave him out here all alone, by himself" Naruto said as he patted Yukimaru on the head
"Come on we should get going" Naruto said
"Hey, can one of you guys carry Ranmaru" Hinata said
"I'll carry him" Kimimaro said, then started to carry Ranmaru on his back. Then they all started to follow Naruto.
Later that day
"We'll camp here for tonight" Naruto said as he set his backpack against a tree
"Okay" the others said and put there stuff down
"Hinata, Haku, check how much food we have" Naruto asked
"Ok" the two said and looked thru their backpacks. Hinata was rummaging thru her backpack when something fell out of it.
"Hey what's this" Fu asked as she picked up the object, it was a hairclip that was decorated with different type of flowers.
"Don't touch that" Hinata said as she quickly snatched the hairclip out of Fu's hands
"I'm sorry, it's just that this is very special to me" Hinata said as she held on to the hairpin
"Hinata and I will collect firewood, you guys go help make dinner" Naruto said
"Ok" they said and Hinata followed Naruto to get firewood
After a couple of minutes of walking Naruto stopped walking and turned to face Hinata
"Alright, what's wrong" Naruto said
"N-Nothings wrong" Hinata said
"Hinata you can tell me what's been bothering you" Naruto said as he looked at Hinata
"It's, it's about my mother, It's just I've been thinking a lot about her" Hinata said as she clutched onto the hairpin that was in her hand
"Your mother, oh, I remember, she died giving birth to your little sister, right" Naruto said. Hinata nodded a yes
"My mother, she was the only person in the Hyuga clan that doesn't see me as weak" Hinata said
"And when she died, I lost the person who always told me that I was strong" Hinata said with tears starting to form in her eyes
Hinata, Naruto thought as he watched Hinata cry
Flashback
A tired five year old Hinata was walking back to her room from training with her father.
"Hinata" a kind, gentle voice said. Hinata turned around to see a woman with waist length navy colored hair wearing a light purple kimono
"Hello mother" Hinata greeted
"Hinata are you okay"her mother said as she looked at the wounds that Hinata got while training
"Don't worry Mother, I was just a little careless when I was training with father" Hinata said trying to ease her mothers worries. Unfortunately for Hinata it didn't work
"Hinata, you know you can't lie to me" she said
"I know mother" Hinata said then her mother pulled Hinata into a hug
"Mother?" Hinata asked
"I'm sorry Hinata, I'm so sorry" she said
"Mom, why are you sorry" hinata asked
"I'm sorry that you have to live this life, I wish you could live a happy life away from this clan" her mother said
"Don't worry mother, as long as you're with me, I'll always be happy" Hinata said
"Hinata" she said
"So I'll become strong and I'll protect you and my little sibling" Hinata said as she hugged her mom tighter
"I'm going to be a big sister after all" Hinata said
Hinata, her mother thought
"So promise me that you'll never leave me alone, I don't know what'll happen to me if you did" Hinata said
"I'll never leave you alone Hinata, I promise" she said as she tightly hugged Hinata
End flashback
"But she did leave you alone" Naruto said
"Yes, she did, but I knew that she didn't want to leave me alone
"How did you know" Naruto asked
Flashback
Hinata was outside the hospital room where her mother was giving birth to her little sister. Hinata heard the screams of pain from her mother and the shouts from the doctors and nurses, until she heard a tiny scream.
"It's a girl" the doctor said as he handed the baby to a nurse. Hinata took this time to peak inside the room to see her mother who was still exhausted from giving birth.
"Doctor, the patient's losing a lot of blood!" one of the nurse said.
"Stop the blood flow immediately" the doctor commanded
"Doctor her heartbeat is dropping" another nurse yelled
Mother! Hinata thought. Then she saw her mother turn her head towards Hinata, her eyes filled with tears and said some words
'I'm sorry I broke our promise'
No! Hinata yelled in her mind
"Doctor her heart stopped beating!" the nurse yelled. Then the doctor tried to get her heart to beat again.
"It's no use, she's dead" the doctor said
"No!" Hinata yelled as she ran into the room
"Mother!" Hinata cried as she ran up to her
"Get her out of here" the doctor ordered
"Mother, open your eyes, please" Hinata cried then one of the nurses grabbed hinata's arm and started to drag her out
"Mother!" Hinata cried as she was dragged out of the room
End flashback
"She was crying when she said those words to me" Hinata said
"It sounds like your mother really loved you, with all her heart" Naruto said
"Yeah, and I was all alone when she died" Hinata said
"When did she give you that hairclip" Naruto asked
"It was a couple months before she died" Hinata said
Flashback
"Mother" Hinata said as she walked up to her mother who was now resting
"There you are Hinata, I have been waiting for you to show up" she said
"I'm sorry" Hinata said
"You don't have to be so formal around me like you have to with Hiashi" she said
"Why did you want to talk to me about" Hinata asked
"There's something I wanted to give you" She said and gestured Hinata to walk over to her
"This is what I wanted to give to you" She said as she handed Hinata a hairclip
"I want you to have it" she said
"B-But" Hinata said
"No buts, Hinata" she said
"But why are you giving me this" Hinata asked
"It's because I want you to use it when your hair grows out, I used to wear this hairclip when I was growing out my hair" she said
"Then I can't have this, it belongs to you" Hinata said as she tried to give it back to her mother, but her mother's hands took hold of hinata's hand
"And now I'm giving it to you" she said as she held her daughter's hand
"Mother" Hinata said
End flashback
"I was really sad when she died" Hinata said
Flashback
"A Hyuga does not cry" Hiashi told his 5 year old daughter, Hinata. She was wearing a black kimono, since this was her mother's funeral.
"Yes, father" hinata said while trying to hold back her tears. Once the funeral was over they returned home.
"Hinata we will be training tomorrow" Hiashi said
"Yes father" Hinata said as she saw him go to his room and then went to her own room. Once she was inside her room she quickly changed out of her black kimono into a black shirt and pants and black shoes and quickly snuck out of the compound. She quickly went into the forest and came upon a cave. She quickly entered the cave and once she came out of the other side of the cave she was greeted to the site of a lake with hundreds of different flowers surrounding it, the trees blocking the harsh sunlight from beaming down onto the flowers. Hinata walked up to the lake and looked at her reflection in the water, remembering the first time her mother brought her here.
The flashback in the flashback
"Hinata" Hinata's mother said
"Yes mother" Hinata said as she walked up to her mother
"I'm going to take you to a special place, okay" she said and then took hold of Hinata's hand and started to lead her towards the forest
"Mother, where are we going" Hinata asked
"We're going to a place that I always keep secret, so don't tell anyone, okay" she said
"Okay" Hinata said as she followed her mother into the cave
"WOW" Hinata said as she looked at all the flowers
"I'm guessing that you like it" she said
"Yeah" Hinata said as she looked around
"Hinata" her mother said motioning Hinata to come over to where she was
"Yes Mother" Hinata said as she walked over to her mother, then her mother handed her a white camellia.
"Hinata this flower is different from the others. The petals don't fall off one by one, the whole flower falls" she said as she pointed at the flower
"Hinata, this place is a very special place, I come here whenever I feel sad and once I come here the sadness just goes away" she said as she looked at the flowers
"Don't you agree" she said
"Yeah" Hinata said as she looked at the flower in her hand
End the flashback in the flashback
Mother, Hinata thought with tears streaming down her face
"Mother why did you have to leave me alone" a young Hinata silently cried
"You were the only person that always cared about me, you said you would always be there for me, so why did you have to die" Hinata cried
"Why, why, why" hinata cried
"Why did you break our promise" Hinata cried
End flashback
"People say that it's better to have something and lose it then to not have it at all, but I don't really agree with that" Hinata said
"I don't know, once I lost the most precious person to me, all I wanted to do was die" Hinata said with tears streaming down her face, then she found herself in the arms of Naruto Uzumaki
Naruto, Hinata thought
"It's okay to cry, Hinata, it's okay to cry" Naruto said as he hugged her. Hinata then slowly cried into Naruto's chest while Naruto rubbed her back. A couple of minutes passed and Hinata stopped crying.
"Do you feel better, now" Naruto asked
"Yeah" Hinata said as she wiped the tears from her face
"I'm sorry" Hinata said
"Why are you sorry" Naruto asked
"I'm sorry for always being nothing but a trouble for you" Hinata said
"You're no trouble at all" Naruto said as he hugged her closer to him
Meanwhile little did they know 7 people were hiding in the bushes and were watching Naruto hug Hinata
"So why are we here, again" Ranmaru asked
"Ah, come on, don't you want to know what happens between Naruto and Hinata" Haku said
"So are Naruto and Hinata together or something" Guren asked
"Well Hinata likes Naruto, but Naruto is oblivious to how much Hinata likes him" Haku explained
"So why am I here" Gaara asked
"Because I dragged you here" Haku said
"SHH I can't hear them" Fu said
"Do you want to be here as much as I do" Kimimaro asked Gaara
"If you don't even want to be here, then yes" Gaara said
"So why did we have to drag Ranmaru and Yukimaru with us" Guren asked
"Because we can't leave them alone" Haku said
"You do know we're going to get caught, right" Kimimaro said
"Hey Naruto's hugging Hinata" Yukimaru said getting everybody's attention
"Do you think they're going to kiss" Ranmaru asked
"Where did you get that idea" Gaara asked
"Haku said that might happen" Ranmaru said making everybody look at Haku
"What, it could" Haku said
"Shhh, let's just listen" Fu said
Back with Naruto and hinata
"After all, I like you" Naruto said
"Y-You like me" Hinata stuttered
There's no way he would like me like that, Hinata thought
"I've liked you for a long time Hinata, remember when we first met" Naruto said
"It was when I asked you if I can play with you" Hinata said while blushing
"You're lying" Naruto whispered into her ear
"It was when I saved you from those bullies" Naruto said
He rememberes that, hinata thought
"You were being bullied by a bunch of boys and I tried to make them stop, but I failed and they started to beat me up" Naruto said
He does remember, Hinata thought
"Once they were finished beating me up, you tried to make sure that I was okay, but one of the Hyugas took you away. You were the first person to ever be worried about me besides the hokage, I thought that you were going to avoid me after that, but imagine to my surprise when I saw you again, and you asked me if you could play with me" Naruto said as he hugged Hinata tighter making Hinata blush
"Hinata" Naruto making Hinata look at him
"I did know that you were watching me from afar" Naruto said
"eep" Hinata said
"And I liked that" Naruto said
"Huh?" she said
"You were the first person that actually wanted to play with me" Naruto said while giving her a smile making her blush. Then he kissed Hinata on the cheek.
The thoughts running thru the peoples minds
Naruto: She's cute when she blushes I hope she doesn't faint
Hinata: He's kissing me, he's kissing me, he's kissing me, don't faint, don't faint, don't faint, don't faint
Gaara: I still don't know why I'm still here
Kimimaro: Why am I here, again
Haku: I KNEW THEY WOULD KISS
Yukimaru: That's sweet
Ranmaru: it looks like Haku was right
Fu: WAY TO GO HINATA! (Fu and Hinata became fast friends, okay)
Guren: I don't know what to think
Then Naruto stopped kissing Hinata on her cheek to see a very red Hinata.
Good, she didn't faint, Naruto thought then Naruto heard a faint rustle in the bushes
I'm going to have a little talk with those guys after I finish talking with Hinata, Naruto thought then he took the hairclip that was in Hinata's hand
"I think your hair is too short for you to wear this hairclip" Naruto said as he held the hairclip
"Why don't you grow out your hair" Naruto asked
"It's because some kids used to make fun of my hair, because it was a weird navy color, so I kept it short, because the kids hated seeing it" hinata said
"I like your hair" Naruto said as he touched her hair making Hinata blush
"I think you'll look nice with long hair" Naruto said
"You really think so" Hinata said
"Have I ever lied to you" Naruto asked
"No" Hinata said
"Then yes, I think you'll look nice with long hair" Naruto said
"I-I guess I can grow it out" Hinata said then she kissed Naruto on his cheek making Naruto blush
"That's for helping me, Naruto" Hinata said while blushing
Meanwhile with the others
"Hinata just kissed Naruto on the cheek" Haku said while looking through a pair of binoculars
"Where did you get the binoculars" Gaara asked
"Somewhere" Haku said being very vague
"Just give up, you won't get a straight answer from him" Kimimaro said
"You're right" Gaara said
"What do you think they're talking about" Guren asked
"They're too far away to hear" Fu said
"Let's just see what they're going to do now" Haku said
Back with Naruto and Hinata
"We should head back" Naruto said
"Yeah" Hinata said
"You guys can come out now" Naruto said in the direction where the eight were hiding
"I knew we were going to get caught" Gaara said as he walked out of the bushes
"How was I supposed to know" Haku said as he walked out of the bushes.
"Well, considering you were the one that dragged us here in the first place, you should have thought that Naruto could at least hear us" Kimimaro said while carrying Ranmaru. The others soon got out of the bushes they were hiding in.
"How long have you guys been there" Hinata asked
"For awhile, we couldn't hear what you guys were saying thou" Gaara said
"You guys didn't even prepare dinner, did you" Naruto said,
"Um" Haku said
"Let's just go back, we'll collect firewood on the way back" Naruto said
"Ok" the others said and started to walk back to their campsite
Whtieicewolf: sorry it took so long to update. In this story Yukimaru is the same age as Ranmaru since I don't know how old Yukimaru was in the anime, so Yukimaru is 3 years old. Guren is 12 years old since I don't know how old she was in the anime. REVIEW.