Author's Note: I don't own Naruto.
Chapter III
Kicking Ass
Hinata didn't see much of Naruto after that night. And it would be several years later that she would get his name. Hinata was being bullied by a group of boys when Naruto put a stop to it.
"HEY STOP!" The boys and a very depressed Hinata turned to see a small boy, roughly a few months older than Hinata, glaring at the bullies. "I am Naruto Uzumaki and I'll be Hokage one day and I won't let you go about bullying her!" Naruto almost yelled. "Oh really?" The tallest bully asked. This was before something happened.
Naruto felt a pain in his eyes as if something was trying to explode out of his eyes. He closed his eyes and grimaced as this pain suddenly took control of his eyes. The boys and one astonished Hyūga girl watched as veins appeared around Naruto's closed eyes. The moment he opened them they were a pure white that seemed to send out a pulse. Naruto could suddenly see almost everything going on around him, including the chakra system inside each boy.
The boys, were so scared by an activated Byakugan, for that was what it was, that they ran away from the Hyūga girl and Uzumaki. Hinata didn't run though, she was too amazed at the sight of a full fledged Byakugan that she couldn't run. Naruto's eye averted back to normal and then Naruto fainted.
Hinata ran over to the young boy. She also noticed the very damaged scarf that he was wearing. She pulled it off his neck to make sure he wouldn't get strangled by it.
Naruto eventually woke up and he jumped the ground ready for a fight. Only to find the Hyūga girl beside him. "Are you ok?" Hinata asked in a quiet voice. "I'm fine now I'm used to pain by this point." Hinata handed his scarf back to him. "Your scarf..." Naruto waved his hand signaling that she could have it. "Are you s-sure? It's r-really cold out here-" Naruto smirked by this point. "Don't worry about it" he said as he got up and ran. "Wait...thank you..." Hinata said as Naruto disappeared from sight. She hugged the red scarf a little tighter than she would normally and felt something swell inside her:strength, courage, and love."
When Hinata started at the academy, she was happy to find Naruto was also attending there as a student and was very happy when she realized all of her classes would be with him. Naruto always a bit of trouble in class and outside class. But to her, it was entertaining to see Naruto being chased by Iruka or some other Shinobi.
One particular Shinobi, a Hyūga named Hideki, always seemed to chase Naruto around when he did his pranks. Hideki was probably a few years older than Neji, and the Hyūga elders had a plot to make him marry Hinata when she became of age and then become clan head. Hideki was super proud and very abusive towards people. Not at all Hinata's type. But he was chosen since the elders claimed that he would be the best choice.
A year or so after Hinata started the academy, Iruka decided to have the young students fight each other. "The first two will be Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki." Iruka announced. Almost everyone started to cheer on Sasuke. Many of the girls were begging him to date them. Only Hinata quietly cheered on Naruto. Her heart knew that Naruto wouldn't stop until he was gone.
Sasuke smirked to himself. He had an "easy target" and many people wanted him to kill the Uzumaki. Especially when they told him that Naruto was actually the Kyuubi and killing him would rid the village of it.
For Naruto, he was firm about his stand. He wouldn't let Sasuke win this fight. He had read books on how to fight from the library. He knew how to fight in a much deadlier manner than what he had been taught.
Sasuke was the first to throw a punch. He aimed at Naruto's head thinking that would be the quickest way to defeat Naruto. He didn't expect Naruto to dodge his attack and counter with one of his own.
Naruto grabbed Sasuke's fully extended arm and made it snap back and hit Sasuke in his nose. After landing a successful attack on Sasuke, Naruto grabbed ahold of Sasuke's head and drove his knee into Sasuke's face. All before punching Sasuke in the face again and sending him out of the ring.
Naruto calmly waited for Iruka to declare the winner. Iruka was startled by the fact that Naruto just kicked Sasuke's ass like he was nothing. "Well Naruto is the winner of this fight." He said and Naruto returned to the line. Everyone was quiet about what just happened. Well a Hyūga girl felt like she was about to squeal with glee. However, she settled for a smile and blush.
Later that day, Hinata was in her room doing some much needed flower pressing. She was trying to get her mind off Naruto and how he just kicked Sasuke's ass like butter. Unfortunately, there was no stopping the Hyūga from thinking about Naruto. She had to admit, Naruto was in her every thought now.
For Naruto, well he was trying to figure out exactly what was wrong with his eyes. 'Well we'll be learning about the different types of dojutsu tomorrow. Maybe that will hold an answer?' He thought to himself as he let his body rest in his bed. Outside his window, a very angry Sasuke watched Naruto sleep. 'How could he have bested me unless it was the fact that he is the fox demon?' He thought to himself before charging into the room. His attack didn't go unnoticed though.
Naruto leapt through the air out of harms way before crashing Sasuke down to the floor. The poor Uchiha was knocked out from the impact and he forgot that Naruto was a jinchuuriki. Naruto threw Sasuke out of his window before going back to sleep. 'People really need to stop trying that. I'm not a threat to them yet they try to kill me all the time.' He thought as he went back to sleep.
