"Hinata, what's wrong?" Hana asked, scared by the kunoichi's puffy red eyes.
"Come on!" She yelled waving for Tsume and Hana to come see. They followed behind her praying he was okay. When they opened the door Hana and Tsume saw the giant dog above the bag of food she'd given Hinata, polishing the last bit off.
"Thank Kami!" Tsume and the two other girls began laughing, happy to know that the dog wasn't going die any time soon, hopefully... The oldest woman walked over to the now pouting dog and scratched behind his ear. "I hope that father of yours isn't afraid of canine's, eh Hinata?" Hinata rose a brow at her ranting.
"Since Akamaru will only listen to you, because Kiba's... you know, he should stay with you so he'll get better quicker, make sense?" Hana answered her question, leaving the Hyuga in shock.
"Of course, Akamaru will need his things, so me and Hana will bring them to the Hyuga compound. You are the future heiress, yes?" Tsume asked looking back at the albino dog. Hinata came out of her shock and nodded. "Alright, and you're an adult. You can tell him to go kiss ass if he says no." Tsume said, as if it were the most obvious thing to do. "We'll keep him for a few more days until he's ready to walk across the village. Until then, you better be coming over every day, or I'll track you down and drag you here. Got it?" Tsume looked her dead in the eye and grinned at the rebellious look she had. "Alright then." She looked back at the dog and growled. "You better damn listen to her got it?" The dog nodded as he felt the evil aura she was emitting, not wanting her to call Kuromaru in.
"I should get going before Obito-kun and Kakashi-kun get worried," Hinata spoke walking over to the dog bending down to pat his head and smile sweetly.
"Obito, huh? I knew that was him. I'll need to speak to that brat later, eh Hana?" She looked at her daughter who grinned at her.
"Yeah, don't need him remembering that I cried out there." She said in an evil tone.
"That's right," Tsume smirked at Hinata who gulped and stood up and awkwardly left the room after saying a small 'Goodbye' to her daughter, herself and the whining dog beside her.
Hinata left the dog compound and headed toward the Hokage's office, where she was sure the two men went after leaving her with Tsume-san. The humidity outside made the Hyuga want to sigh, the weather was nice today with the light breeze every now and then, Konoha was going to finally be in peace, now that Obito changed sides and killed his Uchiha sensei. And most of all, Naruto had finally brought Sasuke back, so no more totally angry Tsunade except for when the older woman just wanted to curse at the wind for getting her blonde hair stuck between her glossed lips, her bad days were the worst. The Hyuga shuddered at the thought of poor Obito and Kakashi who were most likely going through one of the worst lectures and/or beatings they'd ever gone through. She was ripped from her thoughts when she heard a loud male voice calling her name. She looked up and saw a familiar Uchiha and Hatake running toward her. Her gaze went behind the two and she saw a busty blonde chasing after them with a tired Shizune trying to talk some sense into her. She was again pulled from her thoughts by Kakashi, who'd thrown her over his shoulder like a large sack and kept running alongside Obito who was laughing his ass off at the angry blonde.
"Obito, why?" Kakashi hissed to the man beside him who was having the time of his life.
"Well, isn't that pink-haired chick her apprentice, and working with her later?" He asked smirking. Hinata was catching onto what he had done, "Well I knew no one would want to be working with Tsu-Tsu on her period, so I got her back for Hinata." He huffed in air. Kakashi chuckled being glad Sakura was no longer one of his students. She would've been a pain to calm down because of Tsunade being on her ass during her training sessions. Kakashi felt the girl over his shoulder wiggle a bit from her fits of laughter. He had to smile under his mask at her cuteness. This girl really was too much.
"Thanks Obito-kun, she deserved it." She giggled again and gripped Kakashi's jounin vest when he jumped on a building, choosing not to disturb the commoner's 'peace' as they liked to call it. "Kakashi, we should go to the Hyuga compound, Tsunade hates going in there." Hinata suggested, which he nodded and told the Uchiha where they were going to go.
"Good idea, Hinata," Obito chuckled "But I don't think Hiashi-san would like seeing me again. But if it means getting away from boobs, I'll do it." He spoke nervously yet still smiling somehow. Hinata giggled looking for Tsunade who she thought would most likely pop out of nowhere, which wasn't a surprise when you worked with the woman when you weren't busy with clan issues, as Hinata liked to call them. Kakashi finally reached the compound with Hinata still over his shoulder, he ran into the first building he saw with Obito on his heels, as well as Tsunade, but thankfully she'd lost them for the moment. The first person they passed was a younger Hinata, but a brunette and a harder lavender color in her eyes.
"Hinata, who's this?" she raised a brow at the bluette and looked back at the dark headed male, but back at her sister, finally noticing her position on the jounin's back. She lifted her hand to stop the sputtering her older sister was most likely going to do. "Actually, I decided I didn't want to know. But why barge in like that?" She asked the copycat nin.
"Long story short, a pissed Tsunade was chasing us." Kakashi summed it up making Hinata and Obito chuckle. Hanabi rolled her eyes and shook her head. Now she really didn't want to know, finding the only solution, she walked off. Hinata struggled off the older mans back and on her feet.
"Ano, follow me, just in case Tsunade decides to come in anyway." She began walking down a hallway and out another door, to a different Hyuga house, being heir had its perks when it came to hiding from angry-busty-blonde-women. She entered another house and ventured down a flight of stairs after making three turns.
"What are we doing in a basement Hinata?" Kakashi asked waiting for a reply. It was a finished branch house basement.
"Yeah... I kind of wish Madara had a place like this instead of a leaking cave. Not to be modest or anything toward him, but he was a bit cheap." Obito looked at the ceiling and at the walls, wondering why both houses they went into were white? Hinata looked back and giggled at the curious look on the older mans face.
"Kakashi," She giggled not turning around. Forgetting his other question.
"Yeah?" He grunted looking at the girl ahead of him.
"You were right, he is a lot like Naruto," She covered her mouth as fits of giggles bubbled up her throat, she just couldn't get the image of him and Naruto arguing over who's sensei was better.
"So much alike, they'd be like Sasuke and Naruto sitting next to each other in a hospital waiting room for far too long." Kakashi chuckled and looked at his old friend who was still looking around in deep thought. "You okay, Obito?"
"Huh? Oh yeah. Just wondering what's up with these walls, they're all white..?" He looked at the Hyuga and raised a brow.
"Yeah, father has never liked colors that catch attention." She halted and looked about the cold basement. He nodded in understanding.
"What did you do at Tsume's, is Akamaru doing okay?" Obito asked, Kakashi nodding his head, he took the words right out his mouth practically.
"Some how I convinced him to begin eating again. I told him about Kiba's wish and he just started eating." She turned and smiled sweetly. "I'm just glad he'll make it, I made a promise to Kiba that I'd keep him safe, and that's what I'll do," Obito smiled down at her, making a light pink dust over her cheeks.
"You know, I like people like you Hinata-chan." He looked down at her flustered self and grinned, she was too adorable for her own good.
"Hinata, who's this?" Hinata turned around and saw Kakashi staring at a painting. She smiled to herself and looked up at the painting of her mother smiling sweetly, eyes closed.
"Hitomi Hyuga, my mother. That was made a while before she died," She walked over to the silver haired jounin who had wiped his sleeve over the smooth glass frame, freeing it of the millions of dust particles that had claimed its surface.
"I see where you got your smile, heh," Kakashi spoke, making her cheeks redden a bit more, Obito chuckled and nodded, her mother was in fact beautiful.
"Actually, she favors her mother mostly," Obito smiled but secretly wondered how her mother died, but knew it would ruin the moment completely.
"What do you guys want to do after we leave here?" Kakashi broke the small silence.
"Obito, you need to go see everyone," She giggled when his idiotic grin flipped immediately.
"Well, that'll take forever." He grumbled.
"You're right but me and Kakashi will both go with you, right Kakashi?" He mumbled a 'sure' and pulled out his little orange book. "We should leave, Tsunade probably gave up already,"
They went back up the stairs and out the door, a few of the maids looked at the pair, sure enough they'd probably start rumors seeing the way their hair was slightly ruffled from the run from the Hokage and Hinata's face was slightly flushed from the looks she was getting, oh yeah, they'd start talking. Obito and Kakashi seemed to get where she was coming from because they were both chuckling nervously at the looks they were getting, if word got to her father about these lies, being the Heir, he'd have both their heads on silver platters in a heartbeat, but she was sure Neji would get to them first being like an overprotective brother to her and Hanabi, but mainly Hinata, boys avoided her sister as much as they could or she'd kick their asses herself. Hinata envied her sister for her large amount of confidence.
"Hey Hinata!" She looked to her right to see Karin and Tenten sprinting toward her.
"Hey, what are you doing?" she narrowed her eyes at Tenten who was staring at Obito with curiosity in her eyes, not liking it one bit, the navy-haired kunoichi stepping in front of the Uchiha and put her hand on her hip, tapping her foot like an angry mother would before putting her child in time-out.
"Wow, I like the bossy Hinata, eh Raidou?" She looked over across the street and watched Genma nudge his friend on the rib while walking toward their group. "She's kind of hot like that," Raidou nodded in agreement, but received glares from Kakashi, Obito, Neji, who was walking toward them after hearing his sweet cousin being called 'hot', and the Hyuga herself. He paled a bit at the look Obito was giving him but decided to ignore it, the Hyuga heir needed the compliment.
"Guys, stop glaring at poor Genma, he's just having a hard time controlling his perverted hormones around Hina-chan, if you ask me I think he has a school-boy crush on her," Tenten grinned making him scowl, but it didn't affect anyone with the way he was blushing.
"You got that right," Raidou grumbled a little too loudly making Hinata turn another shade of red. It got quiet for a few moments before the only sensei decided he couldn't take it anymore.
"Yo, Raidou, Genma we're heading out, wanna join?" Kakashi questioned trying to change the awkward subject. Hinata looked at him raising a navy-brow. "I decided we'd all go eat or something while you guys were arguing."
"Yeah, and I'll go get drunk too." Genma swished his senbon upward and grinned at Hinata causing her to blush and Kakashi, Obito and Neji to roll their eyes, uncharacteristically.
~***~One Week Later~***~
"Tsume-san!" Hinata greeted the brunettes who showed up at her doorstep with a large white fluffy dog bed and Hana behind her with two huge bags of nin-kin dog food. She smiled and opened up the door all the way and let the more dominant females past her.
"Hey Hinata, like I said I hope your dad isn't afraid of dogs."
"Dogs? But it's just Akamaru though right? That's what you said." she questioned her.
"Did I say that? Oh well, now you have two responsibilities. Meet Kekaimaru Hyuga. You're stuck with her," Hinata was about to speak but stopped when a healthy-looking Akamaru trotted in with a small dog lying on the scruff of his fuzzy white neck. She was a little puppy, auburn-colored and white around the base of her neck, cropped ears that flopped a bit at the tip. Her eyes were a bright, almost neon green. Her fur was thick like the dog, who she was laying on. "She'll grow to Akamaru's size in a few months, but until then, she can fit in your hood. She was born a few months ago but her mother was killed, and she sort of found Akamaru, and they've been together since. She's also almost fully trained, so she'll be useful on missions pretty soon."
"How come I didn't see her last week then?" She smiled at the puppy's curious face as she went to go pet her, the puppy seemed quite hesitant at first, but let the Hyuga pet her after a second.