Age: Hinata and the rest of rookie nine: 16 Neji, Tenten and Lee: 17 (weird I almost wrote cookie 9 )
Aniki is a much respectful version of niisan (brother)
All sentences/phrases which are in this type (bold & italicized), are lyrics to the song 'Save Me' by Josh verdes (i do not own the lyrics and naruto characters yada yada yada) Its up to you to guess who the song is applied too. Coughnejicough
Save me
I feel like I'm goin' crazy
"Neji-aniki oheyo" Hinata said and bowed politely at the man who was standing before her
And lately
I feel like I'm goin' crazy
I've got this lady
The feelin' I get when she says my name
It's a feeling that never feels the same
Save me
After the "Chuunin Incident" Hinata only called neji 'aniki' which made neji furious. Because a) She was the heiress! She didn't have to be more respectful to him and b) He wasn't her Brother!!!!
"Hn. Oheyo." He replied and watched her through the corner of his eye as she walked past him, her midnight blue locks swishing just below her waist.
'She really has changed. She became so….beautiful….angelic….perfect' Neji thought to himself as he continued to watch his cousin.
Who would have thought that a gangly awkward teenager like her would turn into a woman. 'Yeah, a woman with the face of an angel, the body of a siren and the grace of a queen.' Neji scoffed inwardly.
And lately
I feel like I'm goin' crazy
I've got this lady
The way her lips just moveThe way her hips just groove
Save Me
They had an unspoken truce after the scene in the hospital but they couldn't shake off the awkward feelings they seemed to have around each other. She, love while Him, hate.
She wanted to be the one who would always remain at his side, even if it meant that she would only be the observer, the unneeded, unwanted extra, as long as she was with him, Everything would be fine.
He wanted to be the one to destroy her, to rid her of his life. He wanted to be the one to end her, her kind smile, her loving nature and her gentle soul.
He didn't want her to get hurt even if it meant that he would have to be the one who hurt her.
He couldn't take it if she, an innocent bystander and natural pacifist, would live her whole life fighting, for no reason, for nothing but endless and stupid wars. She was a healer and not a destroyer.
If she lived like this her whole life, her real self would fade away until nothing but a body, a shell, would be left. A ruthless killing machine. He couldnt see hinata living out her days, her hands stained with blood, her eyes...dead
He wouldn't be able to take it. Even if it did mean that he would be killing her. Besides he hated her anyway, it couldn't possibly be to hard to kill someone you hate. Wouldn't it be?
You're now that all I think about
The next time I can take her out
I really don't wanna feel this way
But I think it's already way too late
Save me
"Uhhh hinata?" he suddenly said.
"Yes Neji-aniki?" she asked a cute little tilt to her head and a curious smile playing around her lips.
"Goodluck with the Chuunin exams" he said very quietly and hinata felt a jump in her chest and she unconsciously smiled brightly at him.
"Thankyou aniki!" she said, running toward him, hugging him for the briefest moment, blushing, almost fainting and running away then fainting.
'I hugged him!' she smiled and gripped her pillow letting her eyes droop shut. Her smile didn't disappear.
The Second Chuunin Exams
Flashback
"Don't worry Hinata! You've gotten stronger! You could deal with this guy with your eyes closed" Kiba said along with a wink and unexpectedly hugged her tight saying,
"Just don't hurt yourself…. I wouldn't know what I would do if it happened again…I don't want to lose you hinata…." He said, clutching her tighter to his chest
"Don't worry Kiba-kun. I'll do my best!" She declared and hesitantly hugged the canine-like boy.
End Of Flashback
She was exhausted, so much that she wanted to collapse right there, on the floor, with the whole main and branch house and possibly the entire village watching.
She pushed herself up and wiped the blood from her mouth. She was being hit
"Is that all you can do?" Her opponent said, a mocking yet bored tone in his voice. The mist nin was extremely cocky for someone his age.
"Byakugan!" Immediately veins appeared on the sides of her eyes and the pupil lining of her eye also appeared, making the opponent realize that she was using her bloodline technique.
'I just have to use that technique' She thought to herself before closing her eyes and adapting her body to a perfect form for the "Jyuuken" stance.
'Something's different about her form… Like its…intentional? What is she planning to do?' Hyuuga Hiashi and Hyuuga Neji thought similarly.
At first she began to slowly move her hands in sweeping patterns, her movements beginning to increase their pace until strand like chakra were emitting from her fingertips creating a web-like barrier of chakra to form around her.
The web-like barrier provided a 360 degree of protection that could also cut through most any target which dares penetrate the protective sphere. By expelling a more sharper, stronger and more flexible amount of chakra, she can increase it's effectiveness against more massive incoming objects.
"Shugo Hakke Rokujuuyonshou - Guardian Eight Divination Signs, Sixty-Four Palms of the Hand" With that the strands were sent flying towards the mist nin sending him hurtling toward the wall.
The whole audience---yes even Neji and the whole main house--- were shocked and held a long silence as the girl with her midnight blue locks and lavender eyes deactivated her byakugan and pant heavily due to fatigue.
The man was trying to stand up, they could see. His whole body covered with deep sliced cuts with gushing blood. The audience unconsciously held their breaths to see what would happen to the suspense filled battle.
The audience didn't notice that hinata had also cut herself on her arms and when the blood started to drip she used her remaining chakra to control the blood and turn them into her very own weapons.
The blood were hovering around her and as she said her final words they shot toward the now standing man, hitting him with such force and speed to rival any bullet. "Hakke Rokujuuyonshou"
The man was unconscious and the battle was declared over.
"The Victor Of This Battle, The New Chuunin of Konoha, Hyuuga Hinata" The proctor said and raised hinata's arm as the crowd went wild.
She smiled hesitantly before collapsing on her knees and clutching her lower abdomen. The crowd quieted and the proctor shouted orders toward his men as the rookie nine, excluding naruto since he was training with jiraiya, neji and his team and hiashi with hanabi came rushing to the scene.
She smiled at them and revealed a kunai, stabbed deep in her lower abdomen. They looked at the proctor and he angrily pointed toward her opponent who was laughing maniacally
"Oh my hand slipped! Im sorry dearie!"
Her vision turned blurry and she succumbed to the clutches of sleep. She didn't see Neji run towards the man, byakugan activated, hand above his head in the jyuuken striking position.
She didn't see the proctors run towards him and calmed him down before he could do any damage to the unconscious man.
She also didn't see, Kiba and akamaru simultaneously attacking her opponent along with shino's bugs. Leaving the man with only 1% of his life. They left unsatisfied.
He was still alive though and returned to mist in his sad state since the proctors couldn't trust the two medic nins present—sakura and ino—to take care of him properly and not poison or kill him
but they wouldn't have mind him dying, slime like him would be better of dead anyway but as professional proctors they had to see to the welfare of every participant. Maybe.
'ugh i've been spending TOO MANY times in the hospital these days' hinata thought to herself as she looked around the hospital room, the whitewashed walls, the green plastic chairs in one corner, the window with a picturesque view of konoha and her niisan sleeping beside her.
'Wait......WHAT?! What's niisan doing here?' she couldnt help but feel a little jump in her chest as she stared lovingly at the man who was sitting next to her, his head placed on top of his folded hands while one of his hands were holding hers.
'I didnt even notice he was holding my hand' hinata couldnt help but think of how his hand in hers felt so....right, like it was made only for her and he hers as well.
She gently pried her hand out of his and he jerked his head quickly to stare into the milky orbs of his cousin.
And then all hell froze over.
He was hugging her, quite tightly in fact. He was clutching her to him like there was no tomorrow "I told you to take care didnt I? I wouldnt know what to do without.....you. Hinata... Promise me you'll take care of yourself....promise me?" Neji whispered in her ear.
She could feel his breath breezing on her neck and felt delightful shivers go up her spine as well as a warm sensation spread all over her body. "Okay Niisan" she slowly whispered while returning the hug awkwardly.
"go to sleep. You need to rest" he pushed her gently back down 'He's back to being the old stoic neji again' hinata sighed exasperatedly....inwardly.
She didnt know how tired she was until her head was laid back down on the pillows. Her eyelids became heavy and the last thing she saw was her cousin smiling down at her.
"Were very lucky this time, the kunai didnt hit anything vital but if she doesnt wake up in the next 5 hours we'll have to go to surgery and see for ourselves." Tsunade said to a grimacing Neji.
Hiashi had collapsed from stress because of the old chuunin exams happening, he could not take seeing his daughter on the verge of death...again.
Hanabi was taking care of her father and would be visiting tomorrow, Rookie nine and the rest of team gai were either escorting the mist nin or going on a short mission.
So he was left to take care of his cousin, his half-dead ehem semi-coma cousin.
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He looked down at her serene, sleeping pale face, her slightly parted lips and her straight and delicate nose. A lock of hair had fallen over her brow and he unconsciously brushed it away, feeling the smoothness of her ivory skin.
He sat beside her and held her hand, it was warm again which at least showed some signs of life in her.
He stared up into her face again and felt a longing to kiss those delicately curved lips of hers.
He was extremely proud of her, she was now a chuunin. He didnt want to do anything other than take her up in his arms and twirl her about, in front of everybody to see.
In that overjoyed state he didnt notice the bastard take out a kunai, attached a chakra string to it and throwed it at hinata with blinding accuracy. He couldnt help but blame himself, he was her protector and he did nothing to prevent a low ranked ninja from harming his cousin.
In that moment, when she smiled up at them and coughed up blood while her jacket was soaked with blood and collapsed, he had an extremely strong desire to protect her, to shield her away from the world and life they would eventually lead, he wanted to take her away to a place where she'd be safe....peaceful...happy.
She would achieve that in death, he reminded himself
He could kill her now, he thought, she was defenseless and no one was even looking. But he couldnt bring himself to do it.
He stared at her face again.
Save me
I feel like I'm goin' crazy
I've got this lady
She's got me on my knees
I'm saying baby baby please
Don't leave tonight without giving me
Some of your lovin' it makes me weak
Somebody save me
I found the love that's a one of a kind
This time I'm in for it
and I know I'm in just way too deep
Someone…oh someone
I said someone….
Save me now
Im just in too deep.....