A/N: Yo, wassup, l know I've been gone for like 2 years without even a explanation, but it's alright because I'm back now, and all you need to know is

One; I'll be back here for a little while before I ultimately leave again for another 2 years.

Two: I have a Wattpad Account with the same name where I posted a demon slayer fanfic, so if you like the series make sure to check it how, BUT ONLY IF YOU FINISHED THE MANGA CUZ THERE ARE SOME MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING

Thirdly: Yes, I might continue writing the Re:zero fanfics. When exactly idk. Just know I might update one of them.

Hyuuga Hinata was, by all definitions of the word, shy.

She hated confrontation, she was afraid of contact with others, and hardly a word could ever be heard from the small girl.

Most of the Hyuuga were proud, strong, and in the face of adversity, spit in it and struck it down, demanding respect.

Young Hinata, however, would shun conflict, and cower away from any who would do her harm. It wasn't that she was weak, it was that she was too gentle, too innocent for the shinobi world that she was thrust into.

This very reason was why she was seen as a failure in her clan from a young age.

Perhaps, if her mother had lived, she could have taught her daughter how she had conformed, and developed ways to combat the endless hatred and sorrow that battered her equally gentle soul day after day, especially as the wife to the clan head of one of the most feared clans in Konoha's history.

However, fate could never be so kind, and had taken her mother from her, even as her sister was born.

It was due to this reason that she was the constant target of bullying by others of her age group, and lack of friends.

Being the only Hyuuga that wouldn't stare coldly at any teasing thrown their way, or strike down any attempts at poking or prodding, she was the medium for all the hate and dissent that the younger generations felt towards the haughty clan.

Of course, the attacks and biting words didn't come often, as she usually had her caretaker, Ko Hyuuga, with her. Every so often though, she would find herself alone, feeling like a target had been placed on her back. She had learned to hide because of this, to become invisible in crowds and disappear in seemingly open places. She had to, there was no peace otherwise.

Despite this, however, she still occasionally lost focus, dealing with her clan's poor opinion of her, her sister's apparent hatred of her, and her father's constant disappointment of her entire being. This was the reason why, on this particular day, she had run straight into a group of boys, knocking the leader's ice cream from his hand. They had looked at her in disbelief before dragging her out of the street into a wooded playground, before scowling at her.

"Hey hey!" the older boy began, glaring down at her.

Hinata lowered her stinging eyes, trying to hold her tears back. "I…I'm sorry…" she whispered.

"Hey, isn't she a Hyuuga?" one of the other boys said, moving to get a better look at her.

"Yeah, look at her eyes!" the last one muttered, his eyes narrowing. "Probably a cousin of that Neji guy…"

"That means they probably have the same personality." The second boy said with distaste in his voice. "People from royal families are all the same…"

Hinata clenched her eyes shut, willing the salty tears threatening to fall to stay put. "I'm….n-not like that…" she whispered weakly, taking a small step backwards. Maybe she could get away…

She turned and ran, but the leader saw and grabbed her before she could take more than 3 steps. He threw her unceremoniously on the ground, crossing his arms.

"Trying to run away before even apologizing? What, are we not good enough for your apologies, Hyuuga?" he said, smirking.

Hinata remained with her head down, feeling weaker than ever before. What could she do? She was surrounded by boys stronger than her, and who hated her by assuming things from her family. Why was the world so cruel…

"I'm s-sorry…" she whispered to the ground, the tears now flowing freely from her eyes.

"You call that an apology?" the leader said angrily, grabbing her head and shoving it to the ground. "Do it properly!"

Hinata gasped a bit from the pain of him pulling her hair, the tears coming thicker now. "I'm sorry…..I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sor-"

"Hey!" a voice rang out, and the leader straightened out to greet their newcomer. "Quit it!"

The three looked over to see a blonde haired boy staring at them angrily with large ocean-blue eyes.

Hinata looked up in shock, what was he doing? Did he bring someone with him to stop these boys? But he appeared to be alone.

"Hey, isn't he that kid?" one of the boys muttered.

"Yeah!" the other said excitedly, "The one no one likes because he's always causing trouble for everyone!"

The leader smirked at the blonde, causing his expression to become more angry. "Yeah, he's THAT kid!"

All three of them laughed boisterously at this, driving the challenger to the end of his patience.

"Shut up!" he yelled, swiping his hand aside in an angry motion, "I'm not a THAT or an IT. The name's Uzumaki Naruto, and I'm going to become Hokage!"

The three bullies exchanged incredulous looks. "Hokage?" they questioned, before laughing loudly at him again. The leader snorted loudly. "There's no way YOU could ever become Hokage!" he said, laughing at the small boy's words. He walked up and punched the boy in the face, knocking him to the ground.

Hinata gasped, looking at her only ally in fear. Had they hurt him? She couldn't bear it if the first person to show her true kindness would only receive payment in the form of pain. She watched in awe as he stood up slowly, wiping his slightly swollen cheek.

The leader's expression darkened at the sight of his defiance. "You looking to fight?" he said angrily, brandishing his fists again.

Naruto smirked at him, "As long as you promise not to cry after!" he exclaimed, before forming a seal with his hands. The boy's backed up slightly, shock in their faces.

"D-does he know Jutsu?" one of the boy's asked, fear in his voice.

"Bunshin No…." Naruto began, as Hinata watched on in wonder. Was this boy hiding a hidden strength…?

"JUTSU!" Naruto finished, before a burst of smoke entered the area. After it cleared, the fearful boys laid their eyes on the most pitiful clone they had ever laid eyes on. It was a ghostly white, with a cartoonish appearance, that flopped sadly onto the ground, as the blonde watched it with disappointment in his eyes. They all immediately began laughing again, their hardest yet, as seeing this boy as a threat even momentarily.

Naruto gritted his teeth before launching himself at the leader, knocking him to the ground hard. "You let your guard down!" he yelled at him angrily, driving a fist into the boy's face. The other two looked on in shocked anger as the troublemaker punched their leader again, making him groan.

"I will definitely become Hokage one day, and show up people like you!" he spat, before punching him again. This seemed to spark anger in the other two boys, as they came back to life.

"He's underestimating us!" one yelled, before they each took an arm and slammed him back into the ground.

Hinata watched, forgotten by the trio as they all punched and kicked every part of Naruto they could reach. Blood started welling up from his split lip and cut eyebrow as they mercilessly beat him into the ground. She looked down, despair building strongly from watching her savior pummeled so badly…

"Hinata-sama!" a voice rang out, causing the trio to look up in alarm.

"Oh shit!" the leader swore, pulling the other two as they ran in the opposite direction as Ko came bursting into the park. She saw her eyes rest on her with relief. "Hinata-sama, are you alright?"

She nodded, slowly getting to her feet. Ko's eyes left her and settled on Naruto's still form, becoming cold.

"Hinata-sama, let's get you back to the Estate." He said, grabbing her hand.

"B-but…that boy!" she said, panic in her voice. They had to find him help, he looked badly hurt…

"Don't concern yourself with that boy, Hinata-sama." Ko said, looking at her closely. "You mustn't associate with him, Now come."

"But…." She whispered, allowing herself to be dragged along. She looked back, seeing he still wasn't moving.

'Naruto…'

She lay in bed later than night, staring at her ceiling. Why had that boy come to help her? He hadn't known her, and by the way Ko looked at him, guessed he wasn't on good terms with the Hyuuga clan. So why?

She turned to her side, her young mind making no sense of the scenario. He said he would be Hokage…yet was laughed at. Even so, he had still stood, defiance in his eyes, as he exclaimed that he would be no matter what, and show people like those boys that he could. Such strength and courage…she wished she could be like him. She had to find his secret….maybe then she could find it in herself to beat her dear sister, whom she was always afraid of harming in their spars. Maybe she could make her father proud, maybe she could bring pride to the Hyuuga name and stop being an outcast…

She had to follow him.

In the following weeks, months and even years Hinata slipped away from Ko several times, how'd she do it? She had no clue. but if it let her see Naruto she wouldn't question it.

*2 or 3 Years Later*

It was the ninth anniversary of the defeat of the Kyuubi No Youko

During the night, while being accompanied by her caretaker Hinata spotted the spiky haired youth on the streets, and for the millionth time had slipped away from Ko to follow the said blonde.

What she saw made her sad and confused at the same time. She had watched as he was driven from the streets, and yelled at. People shouted 'demon' and 'scum' at him, even though he always seemed so shy and scared at that moment…

Eventually a mob of villagers surrounded the blonde boy.

Hinata's breath stopped, looking from her hiding spot. She watched in terror as the tears started spilling from his eyes again, forming rivers of sorrow on his shaking face.

"P-please…" The young boy said. Fear leaking into his voice. "I'm S-sorry… I won't e-ever bother you all a-again, please don't h-hurt me…"

A shop owner threw the young boy to the ground before stomping on the boy's stomach, electing a gasp of pain from him. "You demon brat, you think that those tears will deceive us? You sicken me, trying to take the disguise of a child to escape retribution… WE WON'T BE TRICKED, WILL WE MEN?!"

A roar of approval greeted him as the others in the group came running up, offering him congratulations while looking at the child with malice in their eyes.

They took it in turns to strike the small boy. Hinata watched on in horror as they stomped, kicked, punched, pounded, and threw the small blonde to and fro, breaking limbs and shattering cartilage. Time seemed to have no meaning once they pulled out weapons, and started cutting him, breaking his small body. She couldn't believe it. This was too much. Why…..why….why…..why…..why….

She repeated this to herself over and over again. She barely registered the cries of "HINATA-SAMAAA!" as Ko attempted to find her. When he did, with the assistance of the Byakugan, he was horrified by what he found.

He got there just in time to see the broken body of Kyuubi dodge an attack from a villager, and made his escape into the nearby woods. With his still active Byakugan he saw the torn tendons and muscles hanging from the boy's arm. There were multiple scars and torn flesh on its upper torso.

He cringed to think what Hiashi would do to him if he found out.

"Hinata-sama, we have to go back now, come, nobody is going to hurt you."

She didn't move. Her eyes were still fixed on the boy's retreating form. "why…..why…..why….." she kept muttering to herself over and over. She couldn't think. It was too much for her to handle.

Ko placed a hand on her shoulder and she jerked violently away from him, hot tears spilling down her face. He got down on one knee and offered her his hand. "Hinata-sama, it's only me. Let's get you home, come on."

She shook her head slowly, looking back at Naruto. "Why…..why…..would th-they do this to him?" she said, breaking away from her chant.

Ko's eyes hardened as he looked at Naruto, resentment hidden in his eyes. While he approved of the actions, he didn't approve of doing so within sight or earshot of others.

"Don't you worry about him, he'll only bring trouble. Let's get ho-"

"Why would anyone do this?" She repeated, her small form shaking. "He didn't d-do anything….he….hasn't d-d-done anything…."

Ko sighed, knowing that this slip up would have lasting damage on the girl's psych. Maybe he should take her to Yamanaka…

He picked up her trembling frame, holding her close to his chest, before turning his back on the boy. Her eyes snapped to him, horrified.

"No…we need to help him…" she said, a panic taking hold of her. "We need to help him! WE NEED TO HELP HIM!"

Ko looked incredulously at the girl in his arms. If only she knew…

"Hinata-sama." He said firmly, giving her a stern look. "Do not concern yourself with that boy. Please listen to my advice, it will do no good to-"

"WE HAVE TO HELP HIM!" she screamed, as she started flailing. He would die, she was sure of it. "WE HAVE TO HELP HIM KO WE HAVE TO!"

Ko adopted a stoic look before jabbing Hinata in the neck, causing her to lose consciousness. "I'm sorry Hinata-sama….but it's for your own good."

He leaped off, leaving as the Anbu arrived and swiftly incapacitated the mob of villagers.

Nightmares of the boy being killed in front of her plagued the young Hyuuga for the night. She hadn't talked to her caretaker, Ko, ever since she'd woken up.

She felt betrayed, since when did killing someone, especially a kid like herself, become ok?

Why had no one helped him?

Why had the one person who showed her kindness by helping her, a nobody, been chosen to die like that?

And the one person she thought she could rely on, turned away from him, despite her pleas.

She turned over in her bed, a haunting look on her face. She couldn't stop seeing him…his broken form lying meters away, while she looked on and did nothing….her savior, Naruto, being cut before her eyes….

In her nightmare they had sliced 'DEMON' into his small chest, amongst other words like 'MONSTER' and 'MURDERER' into other various parts of his body. She listened to him beg, scream in pain, plead to be let go, scream more, pass out…reawaken and the cycle would begin again. There was no escape for either of them.

In the morning she woke up groggy, she didn't get much sleep thanks to her nightmares.

She heard footsteps outside her door, but she didn't react to them.

"Hinata-sama…" she heard the low voice of Ko outside her door."You must get ready for your day at the Academy. I'll give you some time to get ready, but please be cooperative." He said, before she heard him move away.

She got to her feet slowly. She couldn't go with Ko. It would just reawaken her questions and feelings of betrayal. She threw some clothes on and climbed out her window, making her way as quickly as possible along the halls of the compound before coming to the fence. She climbed it awkwardly before making her way to start her first day at the Academy.

Once she made it through the doors of the classroom, immediately making a beeline for the back of the class, keeping her eyes down the whole time. There were a lot of people in here, and most of them were really loud. Kiba was shouting about how cool his dog was, Chouji was eating chips rather loudly, Ino and Sakura were shouting about how cool Sasuke was, as usual.

She took out a notebook and pencil and was looking aimlessly around with a gloomy expression on her face. While Hinata wasn't really a people person to begin with but with what she saw last night, seeing her savior being torn to shreds by the villagers made her mental state far worse, making her quieter, if that was even possible and more withdrawn than she already was.

Perhaps if Naruto were still here, he could lend her some of his strength with his 'never give up attitude' and with his giant grin which could warm-up even the iciest of hearts.

She hoped that maybe, just maybe by some miracle, she could see him one more time, if only for a bit.

But she knew better, she knew her prayers would go unanswered, even if she desperately wanted to deny it.

Fortunately for her, a certain Sage heard her prayers, and answered them diligently.

"Hey sakura-chan, wanna go on a date with me after class?" he asked brightly, hands behind his head.

Hinata, at break-neck speeds, swiftly turned her head towards the direction where the voice came from…

To see her defender chatting with Sakura, a huge grin on his face.

He was….alive? But… how…?

"Naruto-kun is ok!" she thought to herself happily, she mirrored the same grin Naruto did when he walked in, albeit a bit more subtle.

Sakura rounded on him, punching the top of his head. "Why would I ever go on a date with you when Sasuke-kun was right in front of us! He's better than you'll ever be you….you…."

Sakura shivered as she felt an icy glare on herself, but when she looked around the room found no one looking in her direction. 'What…was that…' she thought.

Hinata had caught herself at the last minute looking at the pink-ette as if she were about to throttle her, and had turned away in time to avoid her searching gaze. "I hate her…" She thought darkly.

Hinata snapped out of her dark trans, catching herself once again. "Woah… where'd that… come from?"

This sudden thought that appeared in her mind was unlike her, usually she's meek or timid towards others, as her overwhelming kindness can render her unable to respond or act for fear of offending somebody. Yet for some reason this dark thought appeared in her mind out of nowhere.

Before Hinata had time to dwell deeper she heard the door to the class room open.

Everyone quieted down as their teacher came into the room, a brown haired man with a scar across his nose and the Konoha headband tied tightly around his head, signifying him as a registered shinobi of the village.

"Welcome, and Good morning class!" the teacher said warmly, watching as the last few students, including Naruto, took their seats.

"Hey hey how about we get straight to the training already!" Naruto said loudly from his seat, earning him a few annoyed glares from the students around him. Hinata watched him, ignoring the looks, looking determinedly ahead. "I need to train as much as possible to become Hokage, y'know?"

Iruka looked at Naruto with annoyance. "If that's your goal, then I suggest you learn patience Naruto, because the Hokage must also hold himself with respect and manners."

Naruto looked away, a frown on his face. Hinata frowned as well. Wanting to get right into training wasn't a bad thing, and Naruto did everyday with a hard conviction. Besides, they were definitely overdue for a sparring session.

"Any questions?" Iruka said, and When no one answered he smiled. "Good, then let's get to work!"

"I hate it here…" Naruto thought, feeling groggy.

It had only been a few hours at the Academy, and Naruto was already irritated to no end. They had yet to start any practice; Today it was mainly devoted to theory and the history of the shinobi world.

Naruto wasn't paying any attention to Iruka-sensei, it was all boring, useless information that the blonde thought he didn't need.

"I'm starting to believe your mother was right, you are terrible at school." Kurama taunted the boy within his mind-scape.

"Shut-up you stupid fox, I wanna see you try to stay awake listening to Iruka-sensei's babbling." Naruto shot back at Kyuubi, causing the said Kyuubi to just start cackling with amusement.

Naruto ignored the Kyuubi and silently wished he'd be learning how to throw shuriken or new Jutsu—speaking of Jutsu he needed to find his father's estate to learn from the scrolls he supposedly left for him.

He wasn't able to do it last night given it definitely would've taken all night just to find it, and since he had to be at the academy in the morning he just went back to his apartment to sleep.

While physically he was ready to take on an entire army of shinobi all at once, he was mentally exhausted by the revelations of having the Kyuubi sealed inside him, as well as having an interaction with the said fox and his supposed father as well.

And that wasn't even mentioning the fact that he was the child of the Yondaime's son, and heir to a powerful clan which was nearly wiped out a long time ago.

He was definitely going to talk to Jiji later today.

So yea, he definitely needed to rest his mind after those events.

Naruto, bored, decided to look around the classroom to see if this was going to be an interesting roster of rookies after graduation.

He didn't know why he all of a sudden had this thought to do so, but he did it anyways, besides it was a good way to distract himself from Iruka-sensei's dumb lessons

Some of the civilian Kids didn't really interest the blonde although when he looked around further he already found 8 students out of the whole class that interested him.

Choji was the guy who ate a lot. He was currently eating a bag of chips while listening to the Chunin talk about some mumbo jumbo about history.

Kiba was doing the same with his dog poking out the boy's collar.

Shino was a silent fellow, not talking much when the class started, silently watching Iruka teach.

Shikamaru was currently sleeping, he found the class, in his words 'a drag', and naruto couldn't help but agree with him.

Ino, and Sakura were mean, yet intelligent girls who fond over the last surviving Uchiha.

Speaking of the Uchiha the Moment Naruto layed eyes on the Uchiha his heart stopped in shock.

While Sasuke was a brooding Uchiha Prodigy emo with a superiority complex, he was much more than that, spiritually of course.

Naruto blinked once, twice, thrice, he even rubbed his eyes, as if to confirm that what he was seeing was real.

And it was.

Sitting a few seats away from him is the reincarnation of Hagoromo's older son.

Sasuke Uchiha was the reincarnation of Indra Otsutsuki

"No way…" Naruto thought to himself shocked as he saw an invisible aura of chakra he could identify as Indra's lingering chakra. "Was this a part of the Yang half of Super Gramps Sage's power?"

"Yes indeed, with the Old-Man Six-Paths' power you can understand how chakra works on a deeper level than any other Meat-bag could." Kurama explained, as if he could read Naruto's thoughts.

"How did you-"

"I'm in your Mind-scape kit, I can literally hear and listen to all your thoughts." Kurama explained once again, "Anyways, I believe the first step into defeating Kaguya and her Will is to prevent the sibling rivalry from ever beginning, or at least that's what the old-man implied."

"So… what do you want me to do?"

"How am I supposed to know? Just Talk no Jutsu him or something, I dunno."

"What the hell is 'Talk No Jutsu'!?"

"Naruto, are you listening to what I'm teaching?!"

Naruto immediately snapped back into reality by the voice of Iruka-sensei lecturing him.

"Oh… um.. Yea, yea." Naruto said nonchalantly, waving Iruka off, making the Chunin grumble a bit but he just sighed and continued teaching.

He'll have a word with Naruto after class about listening to the lecture.

Naruto also sighed, going back to looking around at the students until a feeling of unease enveloped his whole body, so much so that even the fox in his gut felt uneasy.

"Do you feel that chakra Naruto?" When Kyuubi asked, Naruto only nodded and slowly turned his head, trying to find the source of this chakra.

Sitting a few rows and columns of seats behind him, there sat the last person that intrigued the boy.

Hyuuga Hinata seemed like a shy and withdrawn person, and in a sense she was. She was a little weird in Naruto's opinion but there was nothing wrong with that.

Although he didn't know the girl personally, he thought she was a nice girl, a little weird but nice.

But once he saw the chakra aura surrounding the bluenette, he remembered the last thing Super Gramps Sage told him.

"There is a difference between my mother's manifestation of her Will, and her reincarnation."

If Sasuke being Indra's reincarnation is shocking then this new revelation gave the boy whiplash, because…

Hyuuga Hinata was Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's reincarnation.

Next chapter is training yay!!