After Hinata had gotten her water, she went back up to bed to get some well needed rest.


The next morning, Hinata does her usual routine: she gets up, makes her bed, takes a shower, gets dressed for the day, goes down for breakfast, eats breakfast with Kiba and Shino, and goes to the training grounds with her team unless told otherwise.

Hinata had just gotten dressed and, so far, nothing was out of the ordinary.

Hinata walks down the stairs to the dining room. Still nothing. Hinata sits in her usual chair and counts in her head, '3…2…1…' and Itachi enters the room. He looks at her, "Hello, Hinata-chan," he politely says. Hinata smile a hello.

'Neji's next,' Hinata thinks, leaning back in her chair and counting down the seconds. Right as Neji walks in the room, Hinata quietly says, "Good morning, Neji-nii-san." Startled by Hinata's knowledge of when he would make his entrance, Neji just nods a hello back to her.

Hiashi walks in with Hanabi and sits down. He picks up the newspaper, giving Hanabi the entertainment section, Itachi the business section, and Neji the finance section. After a few minutes of silence, except for the occasional sizzling of bacon from the kitchen, Hinata suddenly sighs and says, "The cook better hurry or else Sasuke's orange clad teammate will come here…again."

Never looking up from the newspaper, Itachi says, "Speaking of Sasuke, shouldn't he be here by now?" The room fell silent. Hinata's inner clock told her that Sasuke should have already been here, glaring out the window at the chirping birds.

Hinata was about to suggest that she go look for him when Kiba and Shino came in. "What's up, Hyuugas!" Kiba bellows, making his presence known. Suddenly, he runs up to Hinata, pulls her out of her chair and gives her a bear—err, dog (?)—hug, while shouting, "HINATA-CHAN!"

Once Kiba lets go of her, Hinata says, "H-hello to you, too, Kiba-kun."

Kiba gives her a big, toothy grin and says, "We gotta hurry or else we'll be late for our mission! Kurenai-sensei said that we'll be going on this mission with another team!"

Hinata smiles softly and turns to the table, "Goodbye, f-father, h-have a g-great day!" Hiashi grunts a goodbye and takes a sip from his coffee.

Hinata, Kiba, and Shino walk out of the Hyuuga estate. The three of them walk out to the front gate of the village and see Kurenai standing alone.

"Hey, Kurenai-sensei! What team of idiots are we going to have to protect on this mission?" Kiba asks, obviously flaunting his arrogance as though it were something great as he runs up to greet Kurenai. Kiba is practically jumping from excitement when Hinata and Shino finally caught up.


To put it bluntly, all four of them were excited, even though only one showed it. None of them had had a descent mission in a long time. Nor have they even left the village in months. It would feel good to see the world outside these walls once more.


"Well, today you're going to be working with three idiots and me."

Kiba stops jumping and his happy puppy expression disappears. He slowly turns around to see Konoha's Brooding Prince, the God of Emo, the heir to greatness, the youngest Uchiha, Sasuke. Sasuke scowls at the team in front of him and spits, "Pathetic weaklings."