Hiashi took no time into separating the couple. Within a week he changed Hinata's schedule and a day later, he changed Naruto's. The two no longer had any classes together and they rarely saw each other anymore. Hiashi had every area of the school on his constant had told all the teachers to monitor the hallways right before and after class at all times and to take shifts in observing the students during lunch. The reason why Hiashi decided to make these sudden changes were not informed to any of the teachers. The only thing all the staff members were told was that no hugging, kissing, or affectionate touching were allowed by any student. Hinata could no longer eat in the cafeteria because of her father's deep fear that Naruto would try to interact with her. She was forced to have her lunch period in her father's office. Sometimes Hanabi would eat with her to keep her company, on this particular day she was sitting beside her crying sister.
"It's not fair." Hinata sniffed. "I haven't done anything wrong to be completely excluded from everyone."
"Oh come on now." Hiashi tried to coo. As much he attempted to sound comforting, there will still strong taints of carelessness in his voice. It almost sounded sarcastic, rudely sarcastic. "Wipe those tears of your face and keep your head up high." He said handing her a napkin.
"I can't." She choked. "It's just not fair."
"You already said that, honey." He smiled at her. "Believe me it's not that bad."
It's not that bad? Was this guy serious? Hanabi rolled her eyes at his stupid father. She couldn't understand how her father could be so cruel, especially to her own daughter. She was literally crying in front of him and still he had the audacity to smile back at her. It was so cold.
"Dad, what you've done is probably the worst thing any teen could ever go through." Hanabi told him. "Your basically taking her whole life away from her control."
"No I'm not." He shook his head. He calmly sipped is coffee afterwards and continued his paper work. It just about infuriated Hanabi to see him so relaxed. He was such a terrible father.
"Dad, she can't even see her friends anymore." She raised her voice.
"She can bring them here."
"How?! If she can't even enter the school cafeteria anymore, how do you expect them to know where she is?!" She questioned him with great rage.
The man in front of her just stared back at his computer and began typing. He didn't even bother to give Hanabi any eye contact whatsoever.
"Dad are you even listening?!" Hanabi said angered by his behavior. "This is too much bullshit for a simple situation!"
Hiashi hands immediately stopped typing after he heard her unexpected opinion. "Hanabi, language." He warned her. He gave her a stern look and shook his head in disappointment. But that didn't stop Hanabi from continuing her rant.
"Why can't you just settle this like a normal parent? Just meet with Naruto, talk to him, and tell him what you expect of him so he can earn your respect.
"It's not that simple." He said getting up from his chair. He walked towards one of his filing cabinets and skimmed through the endless amount of paperwork crammed into a small space. "You girls probably hate me now but I assure you you'll think me later."
"No I won't." Hinata quickly denied him. "You think making me avoid Naruto will make me simply forget him? It doesn't work that way when you truly love someone."
Hinata tried to keep silent during Hanabi and her father's argument but she couldn't. Her sister was right about everything and her father was too ignorant to take any notice of it. She didn't know how hard, how long, she would have to fight to get him to see passed his narrow-minded ideas and beliefs.
The man sighed in effort to ease himself down. The name of Hinata's secret lover always made a burning feeling of anger run through his veins. He didn't like Naruto and he believed he had all the right to feel that way.
"Hinata, your not going to see that boy anymore so you might as well try to forget about him."
He dropped a stack of colored papers onto his desk and stiffly sat back down on his black leather chair. "This conversation is over."
Neither one of the Hyuga's spoke afterwards. It must've been in the same frustration and disagreement that they all decided to quit talking. After all,What was the point of running your mouth when no one would listen? There was no outcome to it and it would only be a waste of time and breath.
It was very silent during the last few minutes of lunch. It was so quiet that Hanabi was certain she could hear her blood flow. It was such an uncomfortable yet symbolic silence. They were so close yet so far from each other. They were physically in the same place but emotionally so spread out and diverse that it was almost impossible to connect. It was sad how a family of three could be so dysfunctional. One would think it would be easier to communicate in smaller groups but for the Hyuga's that wasn't the case at all.
"Come on, let's go." Hanabi mumbled between her lips when the end of lunch was near. "The bell's gonna ring in five minutes."
Hinata weakly nodded and got up. She grabbed her stuff and trailed behind her sister.
"Goodbye girls," their father said. But he didn't get a response. Hanabi twisted the door knob and walked out of his office without saying goodbye. Neither of the two sisters dared to give him any eye contact. After all he has done, it was best to completely ignore him.
"Hinata." Hanabi said very lowly. "I think you should try to bend Dad's rule a little."
"What do you mean." The lavender-eyed asked tilting her head as a sign of incomprehension.
"What I mean is. . ." She paused. "Maybe you should to sneak out to see Naruto and your friends."
The older Hyuga slowly put her head in silence. She walked down the halls with her sister completely muted. She was trying to find something to tell her sister, something wise and mature, but the only word that kept running through her mind was a simple and pathetic one. In the end all she could think of was,
"No."
"No?"
She nodded as her stare remained on the ground.
"Well why not then?"
"Because the only thing I should be doing right now is staying away from everything Dad doesn't want me to get near."
What? That didn't make any sense to Hanabi. Hinata wanted to follow their Dad's rules and yet, she cried everyday in the agonizing pain of feeling isolated. Hinata was letting herself suffer in obedience to her father. But why? Hanabi didn't understand it.
"Why are you doing this to yourself?" She asked a little hesitantly. The girl shrugged lightly and whispered something inaudible. Hanabi had to tell her she was talking too low so that she could repeat it.
"I don't know. I think it's for the best." Hinata told her sister a second time. "Now can we just please get to class. I don't want to talk about this anymore."
Hanabi had to bite her tongue really hard in order for her to not ask anymore questions. The two girls walked there separate ways to their designated classrooms and disappeared within the crowds of students once the bell rung. Little did Hanabi know that how Hinata had disappeared into the loads of people, was how their sisterly relationship would soon fade.
Hinata wasn't getting better. She was actually getting worse. She had told her father countless times that she wasn't feeling comfortable in any of her classes. But For every time she told, he would always give her the same response.
"You'll adapt to the new environment, just give it awhile," was all he ever told her. He sounded like such a broken disc that their was a point where Hinata just quit trying. And from then on, things just went downhill. The first stage of Hinata's downfall was her constant crying. She was a ticking bomb of emotionally breakdowns at home and at school. The second stage was when her grades started to drop. Hiashi figured there was nothing lower than failing and tried to encourage her to bring them up. Unfortunately his words meant nothing to her and her grades eventually hit rock the the third stage, this stage was probably the most painful level of sadness Hinata and ever hit and Hanabi ever had to endure. Hinata simply disappeared. She excluded herself from all her surroundings, even her sister, and just spent the majority of her time in her room. She no longer laughed, drew, or talked. She ate at night and slept during her class periods. It was so degrading to see how low Hinata could be. She didn't care about anything anymore and it was just scary. She was like a dead soul walking pass the days carelessly. It was so bad, that Hanabi had come to conclusion that Hinata was depressed, severely depressed.
"Dad, I think Hinata needs help." Hanabi said as she played with her food. "I'm worried she's depressed."
"No honey," he said flipping through the pages of the school's newspaper. "It's just been a busy year for all the juniors."
Hanabi knew that wasn't the case at all. Hinata wasn't even putting effort in her school work anymore, so how could she possibly be busy? Not only that but she was always crying. How could he have not seen or heard her whimpers? It's okay to cry but to an extent. When it becomes a daily routine, then it becomes unhealthy and dangerous. He had to know that. It was an obvious fact! Her father was probably just trying to ignore Hinata's issues so he would have to face them. Neglecting her daughter was only going to make her slowly die inside.
"Dad, she hasn't eaten with us in five weeks. Aren't you a little scared?"
The man took a long sip from his coffee mug and placed it on the dinner table. He calmly peeked his head out of the newspaper and shook his head. "No, not really." He answered."I'm a little worried about her grades but the rest, I'm pretty sure it's just a phase."
A phase? Depression was not a phase. Hormones could not possibly produce the level of sadness she was feeling. This was the product of loneliness. Hinata was the epitome of a lost girl. Hanabi mentally flicked her ice hearted Dad and sighed.
"I'm going upstairs." She said backing her chair away.
"Your not gonna eat?"
"No." She shook her head. "I'm gonna go see what's wrong with my sister."
Since you obviously won't do it.
She quietly made her way up the stairs and walked down the hallway. She knocked on her sisters door softly a couple of times but she didn't get a response.
"Can I come in?"
A muffled voice behind the door told her something but she didn't understand a word of it.
"What?" She asked nicely.
"Go away." The voice repeated.
Hanabi didn't want to just leave her sister there, not anymore. She wanted to help her. And if that meant invading her privacy, then she would do it. She placed her hand on the cold door knob and forced it open. With a loud creak from the worn out piece of wood, she walked in.
"Let's talk." She tried to sound as warmly as possible. "Please."
"I don't want to." Hinata said burying her face deep into her pillow.
"But we you should it would help."
"I don't care." The mourning girl groaned as she rolled her body to face the wall.
"Hinata, come on. It's been five weeks now. We have to talk about something."
Hanabi advised her. She sat down next to her and patted her side. "Hinata. . ."
"No." She whined. "Just leave me alone."
The younger sister only stared back at her with utter disappointment. She desperately wanted her sister to recuperate but she didn't even sound like she was even motivated to start getting better.
"We're gonna have to talk eventually." Hanabi attempted to convince her. "We might as well do it now."
"No."
"But-"
"No." Hinata raised her voice firmly. She sat up and gave her sister a serious look. Her swollen red eyes had lost there beautiful color from so much crying and Hanabi just couldn't keep contact with them for too long. She looked down at Hinata's pink blanket and rubbed her fingers onto the fuzzy cloth.
"Why not?" She asked in a mere whisper.
"Because. what the heck are we suppose to talk about? I have nothing going on in my life, like literally nothing, and you know that."
"But that's exactly what we need talk to about." Hanabi defended. She lifted her head up quickly and furrowed her eyebrows in worry. "Your not doing anything but sob all time and I'm really worried about it. I wanna help you and I want us to work together to fix it."
"We can't." Hinata disagreed.
"Yes we can."
"What? You think Dad is magically gonna change his mind? " Hinata tilted her head at her sister's response. Her hair flowed down her shoulders and slowly swayed towards her ribs. Hanabi knew it was the wrong time to admire her sister beauty, but she couldn't resist. Hinata looked liked a flawless work of art. A sad yet gorgeous painting.
"I think if we try hard enough he will change."
Hinata shook her head and fell back into her soft mattress. "That's crazy talk." She finished. Hanabi tried repeatedly to get her to open up but she refused. Hinata had lost interest in speaking to her sister and decided to drift into a deep sleep. The brown-haired girl sighed once he heard her sister's deep breathing. Nothing she wanted to get across even got close to an agreement. She wasn't giving up, no way, but she was going to take a rest in approaching her sister for awhile. She would give her sometime to cope on her own and then later on visit her again. For now, she just had to give her some space. She walked out Hinata's bedroom and quietly shut the door.
"I hope a miracle happens." She whispered. "I hope."
Besides Hinata, Naruto was also failing the majority of his classes too. Nothing really seemed to matter anymore, not after he was forbidden to see the one person he loved the most. He had lost interest for many things, even his favorite things. Math and basketball were no longer something he cared about. The world was sad without Hinata. It was empty, lonely. He couldn't enjoy anything without her around. It wasn't the same.
"Naruto, can you tell me what type of function this is?" Yamato randomly picked on him.
Naruto had completely spaced out. He jerked back to reality once he heard his name. He had no idea what was going on. He hadn't even taken out his assignment yet. The entire time Yamato was yapping about numbers, he was day dreaming about his girlfriend, ex girlfriend? We're they technically even a couple anymore? He didn't even know.
"Naruto, do you know?" Yamato asked seeing he wasn't answering.
"Uh yea yea." He said sitting up from his desk. He looked at the promethean board and saw a graph and an equation beside it. Just buy looking at the equation and the title of the unit, he automatically assumed that Yamato wanted to know if the function was continuous or discontinuous.
"The function is discontinuous." Naruto said hoping he was right.
The teacher gave him an awkward smile and nodded. His reaction made Naruto a little worried. Was he wrong?
"Yes, we already know that." Yamato clearly said in front of the entire class. "But what type of discontinuous function.
"O-oh." Naruto stuttered. "Umm it's uh, it's a jump discontinuity."
"Correct but next time. . . Try not to hold up the class, Naruto." Yamato smiled back at him.
The blond sheepishly nodded in return and took out his binder. How embarrassing. He had been humiliated by one of his favorite teachers. Not only that, but in one of his gifted classes. A part of him was trying to pay attention but the other half of him didn't seem to care. By the end of the class period, again, he hadn't finished any of his work. He crammed all the packet of papers he was given into his backpack and walked towards the door.
"Naruto." Yamato called out to the boy before he could leave. "Come here for a second."
Naruto turned around and obediently walked to his desk. He figured he was going to get In trouble for not doing anything in his class today. It wouldn't surprise him if he kicked him of the math team too. After all, he hadn't been working diligently for the past five weeks.
"Are you alright?" The teacher asked as he looked at the teen curiously.
"Yea."
"Are you sure? Because your grade has been dropping in my class. It's not like you to slack off in math."
"I know." Naruto said a little guilty about himself. Failing wasn't good, failing in high school wasn't good. He knew that, yet he couldn't mange to lift them up. "Please don't take me off the math team." He nervously said he as ruffled his hair.
"Don't worry I'm not." "I need you on that team. You have a talent for solving problems."
Not all problems. . .
"That's why I want you to stay."
The blond nodded with a thanks.
"At least get a C in my class. If not, than we will have problems."
"You got it, chief." Naruto smiled with a thumbs up.
Yamato breathily laughed and took a sticky note from one of his desk drawers. "Give me the name of the teacher of your next class. I'll write you pass so you won't get an unexcused tardy."
"Oh uh, ok." Naruto said stepping back. He scrambled around his backpack for his new schedule. It was hard to find since he had been shoving buttloads of classwork and homework assignments into the same pocket all day.
"Don't you remember your fourth period teacher?" Yamato asked confusedly.
"No." He shook his head. "I uh got my schedule changed-here it is!" He said pulling out a small piece of paper.
"It's Mrs. Hitami."
"You got your schedule changed?"
"Yea." Naruto slightly nodded.
"Why? It's almost the end of the school year." Yamato said getting up from his desk. "Did you not like your classes anymore?
"It wasn't my choice." Naruto told him.
"Really?" The teacher said hanging him a sticky note. He began to write down the math problems of his next class as people started to fill up the room. "Than why would they do something so pointless."
"I don't know." He shrugged weakly. He knew he was lying. He knew the reason why he got his schedule changed. He just didn't feel like sharing the reason behind it to his teacher.
"Alright, I gotta go." He waved at Yamato. "Thanks for the pass."
"See you tomorrow, Naruto." The man smiled.
The blonde jogged down the hallway and up the stairs to get his next class. He quietly opened the door and lightly walked to the front of the class and gave the teacher his pass. She smiled warmly back at him and told him to take a seat.
"Now as we know." The teacher continued. "We have just finished reading the Odyssey and as of last week I asked you to create a presentation of the act I assigned you. I originally had planned to start working today but I decided to do something different."
She began to pass out a new assignment to every row of desks in the classroom. "I'm very good friends with Kurenai-Sensei and I've decided to combine our two classes to together for today. As you might know, she's an art teacher and currently her advance classes have made presentations of their artwork.."
The young female teacher held out the white paper that all the students were given. "You have the list of all the students in her class and what type of art they take. "Please show respect and support for every one of them."
Naruto skimmed through the list with great adrenaline. Hinata was in her art class. He prayed she would be in her fourth period class now. He knew she use to be in Kurenai's seventh period class but ever since Hiashi rearranged her classes. It was more than likely she was no longer there.
"Let's go." The teacher said gesturing everyone to get up and leave.
Naruto slowly walked behind the rest of his classmates. He couldn't find Hinata's name anywhere. No matter how many times his eyes scanned the names up and down the list, her's just wouldn't appear.
"Damn it ." He cursed quietly. He was really hoping to see her again. Without her there, he wouldn't give a crap about the art presentations. To him, Hinata was the best artist.
When he made it to the classroom, surprisingly, it was packed. Besides his class, there was another guest class plus the actual art students sitting in the front. Luckily he found a seat up front, right next to the young artists. He didn't know most of them except for the this one really pale guy. He had a cart next to him full of sculptures and paintings. He was an awkward dude Naruto knew from his history class. He was a nice guy but could be incredibly blunt and not know it sometimes. Naruto didn't understand what he was doing there though. The boy wasn't on the list, so why did he have his art with him?
"Sai?" Naruto asked as black haired boy turned around,
"Hey Naruto." He smiled.
"What are you doing here?"
The boy laughed softly and shook his head. "I'm here to present my work of course."
"Yea but you're not on the list?" Naruto said waving the paper in front of him.
The boy looked at the paper for awhile and politely gave it back to the blond.
"That's because I'm not in that art class."
"What?" Naruto looked back at him confusedly.
"The paper you have is the list of the people in studio art. I'm in AP art." Sai said a little proudly.
"Than why are you here?"
"Because this is an art presentation, all art classes are coming here to present today."
All of them? If all the art classes were meeting here today, then that would mean. . . Hinata would be here too! He looked around the crowded space to see any sign of her but he found nothing. Just before he was going to give up and be patient, she suddenly strolled in with a cart. She was blushing and sweating probably from the heavy weight of the cart. She handed her pass to the excited art teacher and agitatedly looked around for a seat. Naruto was beyond happy to see her. He took no tome to get up and help her. He paced his backpack on the chair to save the spot and rushed on to her.
"Hinata, let me help you." He said pulling the cart to his reserved seat.
Hinata was so shocked when he saw him. She was so surprised that she didn't even remember how to feel. It wasn't until she dumbly followed him to a table that her extreme overjoyed emotions started to devour her stomach.
"Naruto, what are you doing here?" She said hugging him tightly. She didn't care if people were going to stare. It was more than likely they all already knew they were dating.
"My English class was invited to come see the presentations. Guess destiny alined us together again." He kissed the top of her forehead.
He motioned her to sit on the chair as he moved his backpack off of it. She began to prepare her things and organize and cross off things from her rubric. She was so beautiful, her work was so beautiful. Naruto couldn't keep her eyes off her.
"Okay!" Kurenai-Sensei clapped. "Thank you all for coming. I know it's pretty packed in here but we appreciate all the support. We'll start off with our IB, AP students than we'll continue with the studio art students."
Every single student had a talent, nobody could say otherwise. They were amazing at almost everything. They had different artistic styles and their own expressions in every piece of art they made.
"They're amazing." Naruto said on top of HInata's head. He was standing behind her, resting head on top of hers and his hands on her waist.
"They're all great." Hinata whispered.
After many presentations, Hinata's turn finally came up. She walked up to the front of the class and put her many paintings onto easels. She stuck her drawings onto the board and her sculptures on the floor. Naruto could hear all the oo's and aw's from everyone in the class and it made him feel so freakin' proud.
She talked and talked about her inspirations and methods for all the artworks. Everyone attentively listened and watched as she passed down her sketchbooks around the class. Naruto didn't miss a single word of her speech. He couldn't ignore such a precious voice. When she finished everyone clapped loudly and she earned a lot of compliments. After that, the time just zoomed by. The bell rang and everyone left the classroom. Naruto and Hinata walked together outside but with their hearts sadden. There time was up. After this they would never see each other again.
"I miss you almost every hour of the day and I'm gonna keep missing you after you leave right now." Naruto said hugging her tightly.
"Me too, Naruto."
She kissed him on the lips gently as if it would be there last one and grabbed him by the hand. "My Dad has me on a constant watch, so he would eventually find out I'm with you. "
"I know." Naruto said weakly. "Let's not take any chances."
The two slowly walked down the halls hand by hand, craving for the seconds to slow down. They talked to each other and laughed together until they reached the main offices.
A slow make out wouldn't hurt anybody, would it? Hinata and Naruto passionately yet steadily, pressed their lips against each other. Tilting their heads side to side, their lips made wet sounds for every release. Their finishing touch was a nuzzle on the nose.
"I love you." Hinata whispered as she pressed her head onto his shirt.
"Me too."
As soon she let go, the boy waved goodbye and walked away. It was painful to turn his back on her and it was painful for her to see him fade away. Hinata suddenly had the urge to cry; she suddenly had the urge to run to him and fuckin' eat lunch together. She wanted to be with him, to see her friends, to have her old life back but she couldn't. She was about to make her way to the cafeteria when she suddenly heard the door click. Her Dad came out of the office hallway and was surprised to see her daughter standing there alone.
"Why are you waiting here?" He asked her. "The door was open."
"I thought you were in a meeting." She lied.
"In my office?" He said questioning her reason.
"I heard voices." She shrugged.
"It was probably some kids in counseling."
The Hyuga's walked into the all to familiar office and sat down.
"How long were you waiting outside. I was worried you had gone somewhere."
"I was waiting there since the bell rang." She lied again. "I just didn't know if I could enter."
The older man nodded and took out his lunch. "Hina, do you think you can lift your grades up?" He said completely changing the subject. "I really don't want you to fail junior year. It's the most important year."
"I know Dad." Hinata slightly agreed. He was right. She couldn't fail an entire grade, especially if she was on the verge to graduating. She knew she had the capacity to bring them up. She knew she could do it quickly. She had to do it. She was probably the only girl in the school with the lowest grades in history. It was an embarrassment she had to fix."Okay Dad, I will."
Three weeks later Hinata fell into depression again and all the classes she managed to raise up a letter grade, quickly went down. Hanabi's worries again rose by her sister's weak behavior. She was so worried that this time she didn't even bother to knock on her door. Hanabi bravely walked into her bedroom and stood right in front of Hinata.
"Hinata, we got to get you out of this room." She nudging her shoulder. "C'mon, get up."
"No. Go away. I didn't even give you permission to enter my room." She said rolling onto her side away from her sister.
"Hinata, locking yourself up in a four walled space is not gonna cure you. It's only gonna make you worse." She said pulling off the blanket on top of Hinata's body.
"Give me my blanket back." Hinata raised her voice as she stuck her hand out in the air. "Now."
"No." Hanabi shook her head. "You gotta get out of this room first."
"Hanabi." Hinata turned her head to face her. "I'm healing myself by myself. So leave me alone."
"The more you stay in hear the more your going to remember about the past and start to cry." The brown haired girl said while she pulled her sister's leg. Hinata unexpectedly kicked her sister's thigh and yanked her foot away from her. "Look I'm trying to help you!" Hanabi angrily said. "You have to get so aggressive!"
"I don't need your fucking help!" Hinata said sounding just as angry. She sat up from her bed and pointed to the door. "Leave."
"Hinata, I'm willing to distract Dad so you can see Naruto."
That brought outraged to Hinata's insides. "That's a stupid idea." She glared back at her sister.
"What? Why?"
"Because Hanabi, if we were to do that we'd be making the same mistake that got us in here in the first place! Sneaking out is not gonna make my Dad like him at all! And you know something? It's not just about Naruto, it's my whole life. I can't go anywhere without my Dad, I can't see my friends anymore, I don't have any friends in my new classes, I don't have any privacy, there's nothing worse than that. You think I don't miss smiling and laughing? Of course I do! But there is nothing to be happy about anymore since everything's been taken from me."
Hanabi could see Hinata's eyes getting watery and lips beginning to quiver. She was trying her best to not to breakdown in front of sister but her walls were to fragile. "But you still have me." Hanabi said warmly. "I'm here."
"I know." Hinata choked. "But you've changed too."
"No I-"
"Ever since I pathetically fell into depression, not once did you walk in here like the sister I knew."
"That's because I was worried about you." Hanabi quickly defended. She sat down beside her sister and looked back her concerned.
"You come into my room like a doctor. I don't need someone to tell me what medications would be best for me or what therapist I should see. I know I'm pretty fucked up right now but I don't like to be treated like patient by my own sister."
Hanabi slightly put her head down. She had to admit Hinata was partially telling the truth. Most of the time Hanabi was in her room, she would tell her to get help and she could find it. Whether it was medicine or professionals, Hanabi always recommended one.
"Hinata, I'm sorry. I thought I-"
"Don't apologize, it's fine." She said wiping her tears. "You care about me but all I really wanna do is be alone right now."
Hanabi stood back up and nodded sadly. She gave an ok and made her way to the door. The moment the door shut didn't mean it was over for Hanabi. She was going to try tomorrow with a different approach.
The next day Hinata refused to go to school seeing that she hadn't done any of her work. Hiashi tried to push her to go but she wouldn't budge. By three o'clock he heard a knock on her door and groaned. School was over and Hanabi was already coming to the rescue. Hinata groaned underneath her pillow. She wasn't in the mood to talk right now.
"Hanabi not right-"
"Too late!" She said barging in. "You got visitors."
"What?"
Hanabi opened the door a little more and two girls appeared smiling behind her, a blonde and a pinkette Hinata hadn't seen in weeks.
"Hey!" Ino said walking in smiling. "Can we talk?"
Hinata had no idea what to say. In her same shock and surprise, she was speechless. She hadn't seen Ino for the longest time and last time she checked, Sakura had been avoiding her. Did she now finally come to amends? The confusion and the curiosity was driving her insane.
"Do you want us to go home?" Ino said a little concerned by Hinata's facial expression. The Hyuga wasn't looking as excited as Ino had hoped for. "We can go if your not comfortable."
"No no I'm fine." Hinata quickly shook her head. She sat up and cleared her throat before she continued to speak. "I uh—I just don't get it. I thought. . .i thought Sakura was mad at me and I thought you forgot about me."
She awkwardly played with her hair after telling her friends such a blunt statement. She knew they came here because they cared about her, but a part of her brain wasn't able to comprehend why they would even bother. She looked like crap, felt like crap, and was probably going to unintentionally treat them like crap. There was no point in trying to comfort such a lifeless burden.
"We haven't forgot about you." Ino warmly said to her. "In fact, we been worried sick about you."
"Yea." Sakura nodded weakly. She swallowed nervously and slightly lowered head in guilt. "And speaking for myself, I think I owe you an apology."
Hinata eyes widened at Sakura's foreshadowing. She really did feel bad about what she had done. She really did accept the relationship Hinata and Naruto had.
The pinkette walked towards the motionless Hyuga and wrapped her arms around her. Her hug was warm and tight. Hinata didn't know whether to hug her back or to just sit there. She decided to stiffly put her arms on her back. It wasn't a returning hug. It was literally just her arms resting on Sakura's back.
"I'm sorry." She whispered beside Hinata's ear. Her voice was shaky, almost like she wanted to cry. By the time she loosened her grip and backed away from her depressed friend, her eyes were watery. For some reason Hinata felt real terrible for letting her friend cry. Sakura probably wanted to cry but Hinata just like she was forcing her too.
"It's okay, Sakura." Hinata said dumbly. "I forgive you."
"I know you do." The pinkette choked as she wiped her streaming tears. "Because that's the kind of person you are. You don't hold grudges like me; you just forgive and forget."
Not exactly. . .
Hinata hadn't forgiven or forgotten what her father did to her. It wasn't even over. He was still currently doing it. Her Dad was still locking her up away from society for her own safety, or at least that's what he thought he was doing.
"Sakura, stop it." Hinata said slowly shaking her head. "I said I forgave you and that was it. Don't throw roses at my feet. I don't want them."
Sakura stood startled at Hinata's response. She stepped back a little and nodded. "Sorry." She said a little embarrassed. "I just—never mind. We came to here to see how you were doing and to possibly give you some updates."
"On what? Naruto?" Hinata said as she got off her bed and sat on the floor. She felt like such intimidating royalty when she was sitting on her mattress while everyone else surrounded her. She didn't like it at all. As soon she as she sat on the floor, her friends and sister did the same thing. "I saw him some time ago and honestly, I think it's best for me too just forget about him."
"What!? No!" All the girls besides Hinata quickly disapproved.
"He cares about you so much!" Ino whined. "You can't just erase him from your memory!"
"I know I can't." Hinata sighed. "It's physically and mentally impossible. But chances that I'll ever see him again are extremely low."
"That's why we're here, silly." Hanabi smiled. She crossed her legs and slid herself closer to her sister. "We can find a way to get Dad to approve."
"Not only that," Sakura intervened." But we can get you to see Naruto with your Dad's consent."
Hinata rolled her eyes with a smile and laughed. "No you can't. My Dad's an idiot."
"Exactly." Ino grinned. "You get his consent without him even knowing. I mean he'll know but not all of it."
"Wouldn't that be lying?" Hinata asked a little concerned. Lying was a habit Hinata wanted to stop doing. It had ruined her entire life and she didn't want to risk it anymore.
"Not necessarily, he knows what he's agreeing to. The only sneaky thing about it is that you'd have to play with your words a little."
So basically it was just a different level of lying. Hinata really wasn't in the mood to lie. She rather be patient than to be a two-sided daughter again.
"Can we change the subject?" Hinata asked feeling her gleam slowly fade.
"Sure." The girls nodded. The blonde excitedly clapped her hands and leaned herself forward. "Well to start things off let's start with the gossip. Let's talk about karma."
Karma?
"Remember those two bitches who kept bothering you."
"Yea?" Hinata said a little confused. "What about it."
Ino inhaled with a proud smile and exhaled with a mixture of excitement and satisfaction. "Well the redhead is pregnant and the-"
Wait, what the fuck?
"Karin's pregnant!?" Hinata asked with the most shocked eyes ever. A long grin appeared across Ino's face as she nodded once more. "Yup, she's been out of school for long time now. Her belly started to form like weeks after your schedule got changed, so that means she was already pregnant during the time she was bullying you."
Hinata bit her lip nervously as she processed every word from Ino's mouth. If Karin was already pregnant during the time she was ganging up on her, then who the hell was the father? As much as it pained her to remember, Naruto was at some point with Karin. She remembered how she had once heard their expressive noises in the bathroom and how Naruto had broken up with redhead just to be with Hinata herself. No way could he be the father. Could he? Naruto did have sex with Karin, there was no denying it. But was he aware that he was a Dad the whole time? Naruto couldn't be a father. It would create even more drama in her life then what she already had.
"Hinata, relax." Ino said nudging the girl's shoulder. She could see the tension in her face and the stiffness throughout her whole body. The amount of worry was so large, that her skin turned pale.
"Naruto's not the father. It's this guy she use to smoke a pipe with."
"How would you know?" Hinata swallowed hesitantly. She didn't want to hear any made up stories to make her feel better.
"Because the dude told us. He's pretty open about it. They're always together outside of school. Trust me."
Hinata started to calm down a little after Ino's assertive defense. Although she could've been making this guy up, who was she to know? After all, she hadn't been connected to world for a long time now. She didn't even know what was trending or what was important anymore. The least she could was try to be happy and forget about her stress.
"Okay whatever." Hinata said sliding her fingers through her bangs. "What about Tenten."
"She's uh. . . Lonely." Sakura shrugged. "She doesn't talk to anyone really now that she lost you and Karin. And obviously none of us are wanting to become her friend."
"Hm." The Hyuga hummed. So Tenten was now the quiet loner. The girl that finally new her place. Hinata felt a little bad for her, a little too bad. She was actually willing to try to meet up with her again and start all over. Maybe this time they could become true friends. Most likely not, it would be too awkward by that point, but an act of trying wouldn't hurt anyone. She didn't deserve to be alone, no one did. Hinata strongly believed this for she was currently always alone. Tenten had problems, lots of them really. She was troubled because she didn't know how to deal with them. Just like the old Naruto, she was yearning for help in all the wrong ways. Someone needed to show her some care.
"You alright?" Sakura asked seeing the blank face from Hinata. She was in deep thought and sometimes her overthinking led to negative outcome. "Hinata?"
"I'm fine." Hinata lazily smiled back at her. She stretched out her legs in front of her and touched her toes. Her eyes for one solid moment connected with Sakura and they slowly started to sadden. "How did you know about Tenten? You've been holding a grudge on me for months now. Did that sour part of you somehow disappear out of nowhere?" She wasn't smiling when she said that and Sakura wasn't either when she heard it. The pinkette out her head down in shame and pursed her lips tightly. "Listen, I said I was sorry." She weakly whispered.
"I know you did. I just wanna know what made you change your mind."
Sakura forced herself to regain her composure and lift her head up. She was going to be honest and tell Hinata everything. The more she was honest, the more of a true friend she'd be. "I never hated you, Hinata. I always saw you like my best friend. I did on the other hand hate Naruto. But I've changed now."
The pinkette cleared her throat and took a deep breath before she continued. "I didn't like Naruto because I thought he was dangerous. I thought he would harm you in some way and I couldn't bear to let that happen. The reason why I left you for so long wasn't because I was mad at you but because I just needed some time to think. I didn't at the time understand what was so beautiful about your relationship, but now I do and I'm sorry."
She didn't say anything after that. She was most likely too dwelled up in her emotions to even let her tongue roll before crying. She was hurt; you could tell. Her eyes were streaming down a flood. She wasn't happy when she remembered her old self. Why was that? Why was it that everyone held a painful grudge between their past? Naruto did, Tenten did, Sakura did, even Hinata herself did. They all had made stupid mistakes, regretful mistakes, but it wasn't their fault. One can make their own decisions but one cannot cannot predict the future, one is not infinite in knowledge, people no there morals but there are not perfect enough to follow them always. It isn't that simple. That's why mistakes exist. Sakura didn't have to keep degrading herself as a friend. If she truly felt ashamed of her actions, then the ideal thing to do was to forgive her and move on.
"Sakura, smile." Hinata said getting up. She waved her arms up and down catching all the girls attention. "Everyone smile! Stop looking so down. Stop frowning for my pity. We probably won't ever have this opportunity to be this close again. Let's enjoy it as much as we can."
Although Hinata wasn't fully happy, she did feel a little more brighter than most days. Her friends were here, her long missed friends. She had to create comfortable vibes so that everyone could be at ease. Her pain wasn't meant to spread to others, it was meant to be kept inside of her and not disturb. Whether that was healthy or not she didn't care, it was for the best of others.
"Smile!" She said again with a warm giggle. "Please guys!"
Everyone was a little surprised by Hinata's reaction. She had nothing to say to Sakura. She wasn't mad, angry, or confused by her very vague explanation. Even Ino didn't fully understand Sakura's actions, so why was Hinata suddenly so happy?
"Your not mad?" Ino asked.
"No." Hinata shook her head sitting back down. "Why would I? She said she was sorry. She cried in front my face. I have nothing to hold against her."
The girls all nodded and eventually fell into laughter. At some point they all were back to their regular selves. They gossiped and told jokes, it was almost like the pain they all were grieving had some how gone away. They spent hours together until the sun sadly came down. The girls except, for Hinata's sister, had to leave and pretty soon the house became quiet. Hanabi and Hinata went to sleep right after they left, but the sleep they had was different from all the others. They're sleep was calm and excited to see the daylight of tomorrow.
A polite knock was heard from outside Hiashi's office. Busy doing work, he hastily told whoever was outside to enter. A white haired man quietly walked in and slowly closed the door behind him. Hiashi's took a glimpse at the teacher and Immediately knew who it was.
"What brings you here, Sir Kakashi." The Hyuga said typing onto his computer.
The masked man sighed and folded his arms across his chest. He didn't know if it was the right time to notify a man that was in a higher position than him, that his daughter was flunking his class. He knew the man was a strict father, but he didn't understand why his daughter was showing the complete opposite. He had a small hunch of what the reason might be but he wasn't sure if it was anywhere near accurate.
"Sir." Kakashi said as he sat himself onto a chair. "Your daughter is failing my class. She's failing practically every single one of her classes."
He waited for a response but all gained was a disappointed sigh. The older man on the other side of the desk stopped typing. He turned his chair to face the teacher and frowned. "I apologize, Kakashi. I'll talk to her. Just give her some time, I make her get her grades up."
He didn't want to say anything after that; he was too ashamed too. He pretended to read some papers in front of him as sign for Kakashi to leave, but he didn't. The white haired man stood up from his chair and stared at the administrator. He was debating on whether to tell him what was on his mind or to keep to himself.
"Hiashi sir, I don't mean to get too personal but. . . I'd like to share an observation."
"Go right ahead." Hiashi said hoping he would change the subject.
Boy was he wrong. Kakashi took no time into starting his speech. He simply nodded and continued.
"Hinata was doing fine before you decided to change her schedule. . .and so was Naruto before you decided to change his too. Everything you have done so far has been completely random, and forgive me for sounding rude but it's true. The over protection of the halls and cafeteria were made at a random time with no exact given purpose. Maybe there was purpose but you're the only one that knows it. I think the reason behind your actions was to separate Naruto and Hinata. They were a close couple before these changes started to happen. Now, I never see them together. Separating such aa diverse yet close couple isn't going to solve anything, Hiashi."
Hiashi glared back at the teacher with a mixture of emotions. He didn't know what to say to that. It was almost like he had discovered a secret dark plan that he had created. He wanted to hide but at the same time he wanted to fire the fool for knowing too much. It was weird, it was wrong, it was so unprofessional.
"Kakashi, it's best you not get into my family life." The man mumbled.
"I know but-"
"You know nothing. You know nothing about me, my daughters, or why I do what I do. I suggest you leave my decisions alone."
He knew he was sounding a bit too harsh but it was his own defense mechanism who was saying it. At this point he couldn't control it. Kakashi luckily only sighed at his response.
"Sir all I'm suggesting is you find help for your daughter. If you keep this up it's only going to lead to a negative effect. You're already seeing some results in her grades."
Hiashi shook his head and turned his chair back to his computer. "I can fix that with out some else's help."
Kakashi sighed a second time at the failed attempt to get Hiashi to change. He turned around and walked towards the door and opened it. But before he left, he told Hiashi one final suggestion."
"Listen, before I go, I'd like you to know that there's a math team. They offer tutoring for people who need it. The majority of the members are good in pretty much all the subjects. They can help Hinata if you'd like."
He peeked to see Hiashi's expression but it was looking stern as ever. No such luck. He left with a click of the door and didn't appear in front of him for the next three days.
Surprisingly a week later, Kakashi received an email by Hiashi to get a tutor for Hinata. Apparently his convincing had worked.
"So Kakashi-sensei, who are you choosing to tutor the girl?" Two girls asked curiously. "All these guys are in need for a girl. You might as well pick all of them."
Ino, Sakura, Kakashi, and the entire math team were all currently in Yamato's classroom.
"I don't know yet and by the way, you girls aren't even on the math team so why are you even here?"
The blonde pouted and crossed her arms proudly. "We here to support Naruto and his math talented friends. And your not even a math teacher so what are you doing here."
The blue eyed boy turned around and gave them a lazy thumbs up. They didn't know if their immense fangirling support was raising up his pride or just straight up embarrassing him. Ino and Sakura honestly didn't really care. They were proud of his smart side.
"I'm here because Yamato's currently in a meeting and by the rules a teacher always has to be present during a club. So I'm Yamato's chosen substitute. Not only that but, I received this email to pick someone from the math team. I have all the right to be here."
"Whatever." Sakura said waving him off. "Who's the girl anyway."
Kakashi smirked behind his mask and laughed. "You are actually pretty close to her. It's your best friend Hinata."
Hinata!
Almost everyone in the room heard the girl's name. Naruto's eyes widen, as well as Ino and sakura's. The whiskered boy practically rushed over to Kakashi's desk and slammed his hands onto it.
"You have to pick me, Kakashi-sensei!"
"Yea you have to!" The girls nodded. "He needs it! They need it!"
A little intrigued by there reaction, Kakashi tilted his head. "And why is that?"
"Because that's his girlfriend and he hasn't seen her in so long!" Sakura tried to explain.
"And why is that?"
Because her Dad forbids me from seeing her." Naruto firmly said. "I don't mind telling you because there's really nothing you can destroy at this point."
"But if I say no, won't that be the breaking point?"
Naruto slightly put his head down and closed his eyes. "No, because you won't say no."
He looked back at his teacher with such determination. As if he was trying to send a message across. He was pleading for his help just by the look in his eyes. It was amazing.
"Naruto, Hiashi doesn't have the liking of you near his daughter." Kakashi said standing up. He paused for a moment and turned to look at his three students. They all were looking saddened at their believed lost. Hiashi and his power was truly having a great effect on them. He was probably right now the only thing that could stop it and cure it, and he was more than enough ready to do so. "But I'll do it anyway." He smiled. " No staff member in this school should exclude certain students just because they don't like them. It's unfair."
Naruto's eyes immediately exploded in shock. The feeling of excitement quickly devoured his body. He was finally going to see Hinata in such a long time. Tutoring was fucking wroth it if it meant he could stay close to his lover.
"Thank you, Kakshi-sensei. You won't regret it!"
The masked man nodded walked towards a cabinet in the classroom. "Let's just hope I can convince Hiashi to take you in."
Naruto prayed that he would do anything in his power to convince Hiashi. The man was so damn conflicted in everything. He had problems all over the school and his household, but those problems were all created by his own hands. He had too much pride too believe it was his fault, that's why everyone around him was either angered or sadden by his actions.
"Kakashi-sensei do you approve of Naruto and Hinata's relationship?" Sakura asked. She wanted to see if Kakashi saw Naruto the same way Hiashi did. She wanted to know he was a masked idiot too.
"Yea, they haven't done anything wrong in school. In fact, Naruto I believe has gotten way better in matureness thanks to Hinata." He answered as he walked back to his desk.
"So does that mean you're a naruhina shipper too!" Ino said comically. Kakashi breathily laughed and nodded. He had never thought about it, but maybe he was fond of there relationship. It never bothered him nor did he ever want it to end. He actually liked seeing them together. "I guess I am." He smiled. "In a non-creepy way of course."
The quartet laughed a little at his response. They all were secretly anxiousness of what the future held for them. They didn't know why they cared so much, why they needed happiness from everyone to be happy themselves. Any selfish person would be fine with a problem that does effect them. But for them that wasn't the case at all.
"Is this a joke?" Hiashi said in an angered tone. "You put Naruto as Hinata's tutor! Do you really think I want to approve that?"
"No." Kakashi shook his head. " I know you don't want to but it's the best option you have. The majority of the team members are either too arrogant or too awkward to teach. He's the nicest one there."
"Anybody but Naruto will do just fine." Hiashi mumbled as he started to clean up his desk.
"That's not true. Give him a chance it's for your daughter's passing grade. Don't think of them of them as couple, think of them as a student-teacher relationship. It's just one person teacher another person a subject. That's it. "
Kakashi stood patiently in Hiashi's office. Convincing Hiashi was probably one of the most complex things to do. He should start getting paid for at least trying. The man knew how to make you nervous but also how to tick you off.
The Hyuga sighed and rubbed his forehead stressfully. His daughter was failing and he needed to motivate her to lift her grades up more than ever. He obviously wasn't doing a very good job right now, but was Naruto really going to do the trick? If anything he would distract her even more. Weren't they both failing anyways? He had to at least give him a shot. No he couldn't, could he?
"Ugh! Fine!" Hiashi said as a cry for help. His thoughts were eating him intensely. "I approve but on one condition, I have to be present during all the tutoring."
Kakashi's uncovered eye widened. He didn't think he would actually win this. He didn't care if Hiashi's added condition was to simply be present. He had one. Naruto and Hinata could finally see each other again.
"That's fine. We start next week. Is that alright?"
Hiashi forced himself to nod. "Yes it's fine."
On the day of the proposed first tutoring, Hinata already was aware of who was going to teach her. Her father had told her everything, warned her everything. He told her for the maximum safety for her well-being all their lessons would be in the Hyuga house. She was more than excited though, the feeling she was developing was unexplainable. She craved to see Naruto again and she knew he probably felt the same way for her. The minute the door bell rang she leaped in joy. She quickly ran to the door with her stern father right behind her. When the blonde appeared from the outside of her house, she had the great impulse to hug him but she quickly motioned her body to stop. She had to keep in my that her father's prescience was there and he would be there throughout the entire session.
"Hey Hinata." The blonde warmly said looking directly at her beautiful complexion. His messy spikes, dilated sky blue eyes, and his sun kiss tan skin looked even more attractive than the last time she had seen him, probably because she hadn't seen him in so long.
"Hey." She smiled with her adorable signature blushes. They stood there lost in each other's gaze. If it was their choice they would've stayed like that till the next day but unfortunately, the choice making was not in their control. The minute Hiashi saw their lovey dovey expressions, he immediately had to break them apart.
"Alright boy, take off your shoes and walk on over to the kitchen." He said pointing to the right side of the house. "I'm sure you can do that on your own, can't ya?"
Naruto hesitantly nodded and obediently followed his orders. Hinata followed him only after Hiashi gave her the signal to continue. The guy was ridiculous. Didn't he knew that they were about to all sit together in a small table? Hinata was going to sit next to Naruto for the sake of learning. Separating them feet away was as stupid as bringing in a tutor to not teach at all.
"Sit yourselves down." The older man gestured to the dinner table. "You will teach her and I will be sitting right in front of you two as it happens, clear?"
They both nodded as they sat down. Side by side they began their lesson. Hinata had to admit Naruto was really good at keeping his word, more like, he was good at acting. He played his role as a math team member and only spoke of numbers and how to solve them. He wasn't hinting any signs of flirtation which really caught Hinata's curiosity. She hadn't seen him in a while and currently she was feeling a little playful.
". . .so the basics are adjacent, hypotenuse, and opposite. You know what those words mean and where they stand on a triangle. Now with. . ."
He kept talking endlessly about the roots of trigonometry but Hinata was barely listening. She didn't need to listen to any of it. She already what it all meant and how it worked.
"So If we have the numbers three, five, and uh s-seven" he paused and stared at Hinata with a slightly blushed face. His stop was random and not very well hidden. Hiashi became suspicious and eerily looked at Naruto's face.
"What? What happened?" He asked a little alertedly.
"Uh nothing, I just went blank for a second." Naruto said turning away from Hinata.
"Because of my daughter?"
"N-no, I just. . ." He slowly moved his head back to The girl. ". .Forgot what I was going to say."
He looked at her with slightly squinted eyes and returned back to his mathematical state. His stare was some sort of plead for her to stop and at the same time a way to figure out why she did what she did, why she had rubbed her legs against his. As he continued to teach her how to solve the first problem, her fuzzy warm socks slid slowly against his skin again. Naruto face began to heat up again as her feet hugged his leg. He stumbled on his words at the same time but quickly cleared his throat to appear to have something caught in it.
"Solve this problem." He said sliding the paper to her.
She took a moment to understand the arrangement of the problem and slowly, looking at the steps he had wrote down, solved it. She proudly gave it back to him knowing that it was right. He skimmed through it already knowing the answer and nodded. Just before he could say she had gotten the correct answer, she placed her leg onto his lap. He wrote something onto the paper and slid it back to her. Hinata had the idea she had done something wrong since he didn't tell her anything. But when she got her paper back, all she saw was a simple word,
Stop.
"You got the right answer." He said pulling out another paper from his folder. "Now let's try another one. This time with one of the sides missing."
He taught her how to do the steps of the new problem in front of her and constantly kept pulling her leg away.
"Alright so you know sides a and b but you don't know c so what you're gonna do is. . ."
Hiashi looked at Naruto attentively. Was the boy really that smart? Not once had he used a calculator to solve any of the problems while his daughter did. There's no way a boy with such a bad reputation could have such a talent.
"How do you know if you're right?" He asked Naruto unsatisfied with his teachings.
"Well because A squared plus B squared equals C squared is how you solve it."
"I know that but how are you doing it all in your head?"
The blonde smirked humbly at his question. "Because I know how to. I tend to memorize the numbers and problems I constantly see. I guess it's kinda like relating numbers."
Hiashi still didn't believe him. "Well what did you get?" He asked Naruto.
"Uh twenty-five point five."
"Hinata, what did you get?" The man said facing his daughter.
"I haven't done it yet."
"Well hurry up and do it." He scolded her impatiently. She rolled her eyes and typed the numbers onto her calculator and pretty soon got the same answer as Naruto.
"Twenty-five point five."
"What?!" Hiashi gaped. "No way." He motioned her daughter to give him the paper and squinted at it for a few minutes. He didn't say anything but his face showed signs of struggle. He couldn't see a damn thing. He slowly lifted his head and stiffly looked back at the youngsters. "I'll be back. I gotta go get my glasses."
The moment he disappeared to the other side of the house, Naruto immediately flipped his head towards Hinata.
"You need to stop doing that." He warned her.
"Doing what?" She smirked.
He looked at her with his piercing blue eyes and shook his head. He could play fire with fire if that's what she wanted. His hands reached for her thigh and squeezed it tight. "Stop touching me." He whispered in her ear. "You think your slick because your Dad can't see it but let me tell you something I could make you orgasm easily in front of him if I wanted to."
"You wouldn't." She blushed. "He'd kill you."
"Right, so it would hurt us both if we could never see each other again because of something so stupid like that."
She guiltily put her head down at his statement. He was right unfortunately, she was being childish at the wrong moment. Naruto could see her reflecting face and had to admit it was adorable.
"I'm sorry." She softly said.
"Don't be. I probably would've done the same if your father didn't hate me so much." He slid his body close to her and pulled her into a kiss. "maybe I can get your father to like me if he sees how smart I am."
"Maybe." She giggled as he gave him a small hug.
When the man came back he came with a pair of reading glasses. Once again he stared at the paper and was shock to see that Naruto had gotten the same answer as Hinata's calculator. It was so hard to believe, yet so amazing. Throughout the entire lesson Hiashi kept interrupting Naruto with math questions. Some of them were relevant, while others were just random. Of course Naruto could easily answer them but it did get quite annoying at some point. As the days went by and the tutoring continued. Hiashi began to see Naruto's advance intelligence in math. He didn't fully like him yet but he sure did begin to respect him. Slowly both, Naruto and Hinata began to notice the changes in Hiashi. He was more patient and polite. He even had enough confidence in the two to leave them alone in kitchen for longer periods of time. It was weird but a good sign. As Hinata's grades went up so did Hiashi's optimistic characteristics. And one particular day the whole world changed.
Naruto came to Hianta's house for another lesson, just a regular math session, but when the door opened Hinata was not there. Hiashi stood in front of Naruto and told him to come in.
"Hinata's with her friends right now. I told her I wanted to talk you about something."
"About what, Sir." Naruto asked as he took off his shoes.
The man sighed and swallowed away his nerves. He took one last look at the blonde and turned around. "An apology, that's what I want to talk about. My apology."