"Your fear will be the death of you"
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She remembered the first time she had ever witnessed the Sharingan, though it was a lot less terrifying every time she thought about it after-wards.
Sasuke was sitting idly on the porch, biting into a piece of watermelon as he watched Itachi and his father spar. Hinata was peeking around the corner of the house and her eyes widened at the intensity of the fight. Her eyes glanced over at Sasuke and saw no concern written on his face. He actually looked more bored than anything.
The fight was a lot more elegant than she first thought though, both striking and blocking with perfect forms. Itachi seemed to get a few more hits on his father though and from the strained expression on Fugaku's face, he wasn't all too happy about it.
And then almost instantaneously, both of them activated their Sharingan and Hinata let out a large gasp. Weren't they only sparring?
If she wasn't so focused on the match, she would have noticed Sasuke casually walking over to her with a piece of watermelon in his hands. When she did realize the Uchiha standing in front of her, she let out a particularly loud scream and took off running back down the path that she came from.
Her eyes were closed as she ran, her breathing was heavy and her mind was only focused on one thing: getting home.
That objective was squashed short when she ran full force into a sturdy body.
The impact caused her to let out a groan of pain and she stumbled down onto the ground. Her eyes found a pair of black ones as she looked up.
"I-I..I wanted...I wanted to see if you..and Sasuke w-were home" She stammered out as she felt her cheeks redden from complete embarrassment. Itachi pulled her up from the ground and gave her a light chuckle.
"You didn't do anything wrong" He assured as he brushed off a few pieces of leaves and dirt that had gotten on her. His gentle nature still surprised her, since she was used to the strict voice of the Hyuga.
"Why did you run?" His face took on a different expression, almost like Sasuke's bored one but with more pain in his eyes.
Hinata rubbed her palms together and her eyes fell to the ground.
"Sasuke scared me"
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Hinata took off running down the field, leaving the old tree behind as she pumped chakra into her feet. She never took her eyes off the ruby ones in the forest and a sense of hope and fear mixed together in her chest. Her breathing was slow even though her pace was anything but.
As she got closer she could see that it was indeed a human who possessed these eyes and her Byakugan activated almost by itself.
Then it was gone.
Hinata slid forward a few feet as she stopped herself, her eyes searching wildly for the person she wanted to see the most. Frustrated tears pooled in the corners of her eyes as she looked back at where she came from and back at the forest.
He was here
He was watching me
The thoughts willed her to jump up onto one of the branches of a large tree and continue her chase. Her expression was twisted up into complete concentration as she looked around the darkening forest. The rush of adrenaline kept her feet going and clouded any rational thought of stopping.
She wasn't going to throw away this opportunity.
The loud squeal of a hog disrupted her concentration though and sent her straight into a tree, knocking the air out of her lungs on impact. No noise left her opened mouth as she plummeted down to forest floor.
The last thing she saw before her vision was completely swallowed up by the black spots was the trademark cloud of the Akatsuki.
I hope everyone is enjoying the story so far 'v'
Chapter 3 will be uploaded either tomorrow or the following day. I'm excited for this story and I'm hoping I can get to 15 chapters !
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