~TIME SKIPPPPPPPPP~ FIVE MONTHS LATER
"Lady Hinata, Hiashi-sama wishes to see you,"
Hinata groaned to herself as she lifted her upper body off her comfy bed, she really needed to stop training so late. She shook her head at the thoughts and rubbed her eyes. Light poured into her bedroom that morning, her window stood open letting in a cool breeze, she sighed and looked down.
"Hai, I'll be out in a moment," She spoke in the most formal morning voice she could. The dog laying at the foot of her bed made her want to smile, Kekaimaru had grown about a foot since Ino had apologized to her a few months ago. The auburn dog lifted her head curiously and stared her master in her lavender eyes with her own piercing green ones. Kekaimaru and Obito had grown very close and the female dog followed him around like she did with her real master and listened to him a lot better than she did the Hyuga that owned her. Akamaru stood up from his fluffy bed and walked over to Hinata on the side of her bed, trying to usher her out of bed and begin the day. She sighed in defeat and swung her legs to the side of her bed and walked to her dresser and pulled out her clean jounin vest and a mesh body suit along with some standard shinobi sandals and black capris. After getting a shower and putting her clothes on she pulled her hair up into a lose pony tail and left the room followed by her two companions.
Once she was in the meeting room, she was greeted by her father and sister, she bowed politely and smiled at the man she'd finally gotten noticed by and patted her sister on the head, making the said girl grumble and frown saying something about how she was sixteen and not six.
"You needed me father?" She looked back at him with a smug grin from what her sister had said.
He smiled at his daughter and began to speak "Anko Mitarashi and Kakashi-san came by this morning to inform you that they are going on a week-long mission with your team. Leaving you the week off because of your mission that I have yet been told of," He frowned at the sad truth that it was a confidential mission as the hokage clearly put it and he was probably never going to find out what it was his daughter was off doing these past months "and your sister wished for me to ask if you would help her prepare for Naruto-san's wedding tomorrow." He looked at his younger daughter and smiled.
"Oh… Alright, come on Hanabi-chan," Hinata giggled and grabbed her sister's hand and dragged her off. Once she and her sister were out of the compound, she stopped and turned to her sister. "So, Hanabi-chan, what is it that you really wanted to do?"
Her sister smiled nervously and rubbed the back of her neck like Obito did when he was in trouble, she grinned at the man she had grown so close to but blushed at the thought of it. "Heh, wellll, I actually wanted to go on my date with Konohamaru. Heh. I knew father wanted us to bond so I saw the chance to kill two birds with one stone, he'll think we're bonding, and we can do it after the date if you want though,"
Hinata shook her head "Its alright, go ahead. I wanted to go see Obito-kun anyway, bye Hanabi," She waved to her sister and they both parted heading the opposite directions. Hinata began walking to the Uchiha compound just a bit on the outskirts of the village. It took her about fifteen minutes until she saw the war fan crest known as the Uchiha symbol painted on the gates of the deserted family homes. She walked up to the familiar house. It was big for just two men, Obito and Sasuke. She went to the door and knocked. Sasuke opened the door, dressed in a high collar white, short-sleeved shirt with the white and red fan sewed onto the back.
"Hi, Hinata. He's in his room upstairs, I tried to get him up but he didn't move. Maybe you can get his lazy ass out of bed for once." He grumbled the last part and opened the door for her to enter.
She walked up the stairs and opened the door. She looked at the king-sized bed in the corner of the room to see a lump of navy-blue covers, and a leg hanging off the side lazily. She looked down at her devilish dogs and smirked, they seemed to know what she meant because they both trotted to the bed and jumped on top of the lump. Hinata giggled at the hilarious sight, Akamaru walked over to and bent down to slide his tongue across the man's face, leaving behind a slobbery mess. Obito comically groggily leaned up and wrapped his arms around the dog's neck and pulled him down, saying something about 'honey, you smell like your dog' Hinata was laughing so hard that Sasuke had come to see what was going on.
The younger Uchiha smirked at the Hyuga who was haunched over holding her sides in a fit of laughter, these past few months he'd been seeing more and more of the Hyuga ex-heiress, who had been growing obviously close to his uncle. He shook his head and walked over to the bed, he bent down and covered the older Uchiha's mouth with one had and pinched the mans nose with his free one. Hinata still laughed at the sight of Obito slowly turning red before he shot his eyes open and squirmed around and soon found his face on hard wood, he gasped for air and took a deep breath. He looked up at the familiar giggle of his now closest friend, her laugh was starting to die down but he couldn't stay mad with her looking so happy, Raidou had pointed out to him that Hinata had seemed a lot happier ever since he came back home and Genma humorously waved it off saying that she was only acting the way before because her teams death, and that Obito only shared a connection with her beacuse of that, saying it smugly bouncing his senbon as he spoke. Obito knew better, the jounin was in fact jelous of him getting so close to the Hyuga.
Obito had a smug look on his face at the hilarious idea of one of the third's elite body guards having a weak spot for the girl who had reminded him of his past crush every time he saw her. He stood up and grinned at the large dog, which had recently slobbered all over his face, and patted the dog's head. Sasuke huffed and walked out of the room, finding something better to do, he really didn't want to go see the hokage, she'd give the younger Uchiha some stupid service to go do for the village and he'd go back and give a report, only to find that she had more errands for him to run. He sighed and headed out the door, ready for his painful day to begin, he had sometimes asked himself why on earth he bothered getting his revenge on his brother, especially when finding out afterward that his brother did it for the villages protection and that Itachi had in fact cared deeply for him.
Back in the bedroom, Obito had left to shower leaving Hinata sitting on his bed. She looked curiously around the room, it wasnt much, just a bed, a dresser, a giant Uchiha crest painted on the navy-blue wall, wooden floors, and lastly there had been a bathroom across from where she was currently perched at. She looked back at the dresser and saw a picture frame with a picture inside of Minato, Kakashi, Obito and Rin, she smiled at how happy Obito seemed being beside her. But a flood of jealousy came crashing down on her for some reason. She knew the girl was dead so why was she having a hissy over it? Was it because she wasn't like Rin to Obito? She looked back at the girl and smiled to herself at how pretty the girl was and how happy she looked, surrounded by her boys. Hinata liked to refer to her old team and now Kakashi and Obito as, she had grown up with guys all her life, besides her sister and her mother that is. Ko had always been there for her from the time she had turned two, he had followed her around like a hawk, always keeping her protected, her father was always there for her as well, she just hadn't realized this earlier in her life, she know knew her father had only been hard on her so she didn't end up dying at a young age. He now saw her as the powerful kunoichi she was meant to be, she had given up her high title when her father had asked if she wanted to become heir, mainly because she wanted to be a jounin who was able to do missions when told, and she really didn't want to have to deal with all the duties that came with the role as heiress.
She hadn't realized Obito was out of the shower until he sat beside her and snaked her arm around her waste and pulled her closer to him. Her blush came through noticing how close she was to a man. It wasn't uncomfortable. In fact she didn't want to move from that very spot. To the older mans surprise, she leaned her head on his shoulder.
"What's wrong Hina-chan?" He asked in a concerned voice resting his chin on the top of her head. Being close a certain giant shark-mans height had its perks. He was close to two feet taller than the girl beside him. She smiled to herself at his concern. It warmed her heart to know that this man in general cared for her wellbeing. She snuggled into his comfort and shook her head.
"Nothing Obi-kun," Hinata whispered. He blushed at his nickname and rubbed her back soothingly. Hinata smiled again, all she wanted to do today was this.
"Hina-chan, I wanted to take you somewhere, but we'd have to be alone." He asked hating himself, he didn't want to move but if this went on, he wouldn't be able to control his emotions and he'd end up doing something he'd regret. He had gone through this before. He and the Hyuga were just friends at the moment and he'd only go further with her permission. It was very hard though, considering the fact that he'd never been so close to a person in his life, let alone a female. It was a miracle that she'd started to get closer to him in the first place, he would have thought she'd shun him for all the bad he'd done, he had asked her once why she bothered with him after telling her all the things he had done wrong a while ago. She shook her head and told him he was haunted by the death of a loved one and being under the influence of Madara made it worse, seeing that the old man had been the one who'd caused everything and that if that had happened to her with someone she had loved she would've done the same thing.
"Sure, sounds fun." She smiled and looked at her dogs. "Akamaru, take Kekaimaru home, I'll be back later." The dog whined but understood, he and his companion stood up and left, leaving them alone.
He let go of her and walked to the dresser pulling out two hooded cloaks and tossing her one. She looked at him questioningly but slid it on when he pulled his on. He grabbed a pair of black gloves and slid them over his pale fingers and walked over to the Hyuga and stood behind her. He leaned forward and wrapped his arms around her and laid his chin on her shoulder. "Close your eyes," He whispered, making goosebumps appear on her neck as his warm breath caressed her cold skin. She obeyed and closed her eyes hesitantly. He grinned in satisfaction at her body's reaction to his touch. He did a few hand seals and they both disappeared into a vortex of darkness.
The adrenaline rushed through her veins at this new feeling, like she was standing, but there was no ground to stand on. She dared herself to open her lilac eyes, but decided she didn't want to ruin this moment. She peeked her eyes open when she felt a rush of air blow through her hair and Obito chuckled. Had he seen her? It was so dark she couldn't see her hand if she waved it in her own face. She activated her byakugan and scanned the perimeter. There wasn't anyone that she could see.
"It's fine, no one knows where this place is besides me, Madara and Zetsu, and I'm not sure where he is. Did you see him?" He asked, she shook her head hoping he'd somehow see that like he saw her open her eyes. She deactivated her bloodline and looked back at where his chakra flow was before, not wanting to waste any chakra just encase they ran into trouble "Alright, come on," He kneeled down and she gave him a questioning look, she'd heard shuffling and guessed he'd bent over, but why? She felt him grab her arm and throw her over his back. She felt the blood travel to her face and closed her eyes, this was too embarrassing, well... this situation was.
"What exactly is this what you're doing..?" He frowned, she must not have had a 'do-as-you-please' childhood like him, his family had given up on him by the time he turned seven, so he had free time to play with the younger Uchiha's in the compound. He had heard Hiashi was a stern man and could tell when he saw Hinata and Hanabi talking to him on the porch one day that these rumors were most likely true. He gripped her legs and wrapped them around his waist. She locked her arms around his lower neck like a small child, afraid of heights. He mused. She really was too sweet for her own good.
He held her legs to support whatever weight she actually had. "Live a little, its a piggy-back ride Hina-chan," he chuckled as she gripped him tighter. "Did you ever do this as a child?"
"No, father did not have the time, Ko-kun had held my hand as a small child and tried to teach me games, but, father found out and Ko-kun was yelled at," She spoke softly on his shoulder. He sighed and began to walk down the dark hallway. He knew this place inside out.
"My life wasn't fun either Hina-chan."
"How so?" She asked sarcastically, very uncharacteristically. He smirked and let go of one of her legs and grabbed a door handle twisting it, a cold breeze flew in instantainiously and she shivered, he reached back and supported her weight again and entered the room. It was brighter, with light pouring in the room from a crack in the wall made up of giant rocks, but hey, it was a cave after all. He walked over to the mask on the ground and picked it up, he had worn the orange swirly mask the first time he had seen Hina-chan. He smiled and handed it to her.
She examined it and smiled a bit "Tobi,"