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A NaruHina story

The young Hyuuga heiress coughed and fell to her knees for the 5th time that day. Neji glared at the weaker girl as he walked up to her to help her to her feet, “you are a disgrace,” he whispered in her ear once she was on her feet. He released her and walked up to Hiashi Hyuuga and with a polite bow he said formally, “Hiashi-sama, if you don’t mind my leaving I have other duties now,” he said with as much respect for the Hyuuga lord as possible. With a stiff not and a snarl on his features he nodded and let his nephew walk off to his morning duties.
The young ebony haired girl stood in the center of the dojo holding her right shoulder, her long hair covering her down turned face. With hatred in his every movement he forced chakra into the tips of his fingers like his jukken and roughly lifted her face to meet his, she let out a startled cry as her eyes were forced to meet her fathers, tears softly leaking down from her blank emotionless eyes. After years of torture and insults thrown at her from her family, and no Naruto to make her stronger she held away her emotion and just glared back to her father, “you are disgraceful, after all these years of training you are still beat by a branch member, you are no heiress,” he spat at her, and roughly released his fingers from her chin.
He spun on his heal away from his failure of a daughter and went to walk out of the training area. “This weeks pay will be your last, then I want you out of this house,”
After years of building up her courage, of becoming a true ninja who could stand up to those in her path, she still could never be rude to her family, to them she was always a failure, and to her she would be.
She placed her fringe behind her ears and walked off to pack her bags, after all she got paid today meaning she had to be gone by tomorrow.

“Ok Kiba, Hinata, Shino, you are dismissed, your mission will start at dawn tomorrow,” with a deep bow and a chorus of “hai,” they all went for the door, “Hinata-chan, please wait here for a second I wish to talk to you,” said the blonde Hokage.
Hinata turned around with a brief “hai,” then stood in front of the Hokage, somewhat nervous.
“I've herd the Hyuuga council have dismissed you as a Hyuuga and thrown you form your home,” the kunoichi said as she indicated to the seat in front of her, trying to get the young ex-heiress to seat.
Reluctantly she sat down looking extremely nervous, “h-hai,” beside her father and the rest of the Hyuugas she only kept her shy facade in front of high authority figures, such as the Hokage before her. She began to play with her fingers in her lap to distract herself.
“Have you found a place to stay?” asked the lady in front of her.
“H-hai, Hokage-sama, I-im staying with Yamanaka Ino for a few days,” she whispered to the older woman.
“From then on were do you plan on staying?”
‘Even on my own I cant do anything, I have nowhere to go. Maybe I am that useless,’ she mocked silently to herself, turning slightly pink in the cheeks she whispered even softer, “I don’t know, Hokage-sama”
The large breasted lady stood from her seat, the younger kunoichi still refusing to look up at her, “well I have things to do, and you have to pack for your mission tomorrow,” she walked up to the girl and dropped a note attached to some keys in the pale eyed girls lap, “when you return you can move into your new apartment, though sometime in the future you may get a roommate,” said the old woman helping her to her feet.
The plain violet eyed girl looked up to her Hokage in disbelief, tears brimming her eyes, “are you serious?” she asked her voice shaking “h-h-Hokage-sama!” After a quick nod from the blonde woman Hinata beamed and hugged the lady before being ushered out of her office.

Hinata sat in front of the campfire she had made; she was shocked to say the least about what she had done. Behind her both her teammates lay unconscious in her tent, she had most of the basic medical jutsu’s down so she had healed all their wounds, their only reason for unconsciousness was their lack of chakra.
She remembered the fight. She was fighting with Kiba and Shino as always, and by the time she had killed her opponent she turned to find her comrades on the ground, and their opponents meters away from them dead as well. Even Akamaru was out to it. She was still wondering how she managed to survive it unscratched and still have half her chakra reserves; she must have got the weak one, that’s all she could conclude. She took her ninja headband off from around her neck and placed it on the ground next to her.
She sat there, her hair covering her face as it always did, it was finally long enough to, ever since 3 years ago when the boy she had always admired had left, she stopped keeping her hair short, she let it grow long so maybe she could impress him like Sakura-chan used to when she had long hair. She was on a log next to the fire in her normal training pants and her netted armor undershirt. She rarely wore it by itself but everyone was unconscious, and there were no pools anywhere for her to bath in to cool her off, and if there were she couldn’t leave her teammates unattended and she just removed her hoody. She had trained non-stop for 3 years until she became Chuunin, even then she was the only one from the original rookie 9 that still trained like mad. Everyone else was proud of themselves so they didn’t bother improving too much except Hinata, and of course Naruto, but he was long gone.
She couldn’t help but remember the young ninja she had liked so much. He was short and blonde, his bright blue eyes always full of determination, that’s what she really loved about him. He was always eager to fight and protect those he cared for, even if he didn’t like them, he would protect anyone he could. That’s what made him her hero.
She closed her eyes in her usually daydream, of her young and charming Naruto
Dream
She sits there along in a park; it is nighttime but bright from the moonlight. She lay on the featherlike grass staring up at the cloudless night sky. A small movement catches her eyes and she site up to see Naruto just out of the shadows of a tree watching her, a faint blush on his cheeks.
He smiles his cute little smile, “Hinata-hime,” he whispers softly in the breeze and walks towards her. When he reaches her kneels in front of her, her heart begins to race. He placed his soft hand on her cheek and leans towards her, slowly pinning her to the soft grass before planting a soft kiss on her lips.
End dream

“-Sigh- oh Naruto-kun, I wish you were here,” she whispered and whipped away a stray tear.

Two male companions ran from tree branch to tree branch to tree branch on their way home after 3 long years or training. On the left was a medium build man in what looked to be his late 30s early 40s. He had very long spiked white hair, and a red line cascading from under each eye. His companion was taller than him; he had bright yellow blonde hair and vivid blue eyes. He wore normal black training pants and an orange and black jacket wrapped around his waist, on his chest was nothing, not even a thin layer of sweat. He was 16 years old with a torn and toned tanned body. With a start he stopped on a branch and stopped his teammate, his Konoha leaf ninja headband shining in the moonlight on his forehead, blinding the white haired man momentarily.
“Baka! Don’t just stop were not home ye-” the old man yelled at his young student before being silenced by the younger mans hand.
With an impatient look the young ninja glared at his sensei “Ero-sannin! Shut up there is a campfire near by so don’t go screaming at the top of your lungs!” the arrogant young ninja screamed at the older ninja, making more noise than the perverted old man, “stay her ill cheek it out,” he said softer and did a few hand signs and whispered the words to release the jutsu. Instantly a thick fog began to roll in from behind him and cover a kilometer radius. The old Sannin took a seat and waited for the impatient boy to return.

Hinata saw the fog begin to roll in at an uniquely fast pace, she drew a kunai and activated her Byakugan, the thin light blue veins popping out from around her eyes as she began to see the chakra flow of everything around her.
She turned towards the tent that she had placed her injured comrades in and placed a chakra lock on the tent. With kunai still in hand she walked over to the small fire and put it out, she planned on making the mist work to her Byakugan’s advantage. She poured a small cup over its ashes and reached for her Konoha headband. As she wrapped her hand around her forehead protector a senbon was sent at her hand, just enough to graze the top of it.  She bolted upright and threw a kunai at the direction were the ninja had been, and then jumped back with intense ninja speed.
When she landed shuriken were thrown were she had been minutes ago, quickly making a line to were she was now. She leapt to a tree behind her and waited. She could see were the infiltrator was now he was directly across the clearing to her, searching around to find his victim. With a smile she sped along the branches sure not to make a sound or movement on the tree’s she was running along. She came up behind him and slit his neck from behind making herself wonder briefly when she became so quick to kill her victim. The body choked, then turned into a puff of smoke, ‘shadow clone! Dammit they have chakra fused with the clones, I cant tell the difference,’ she cried and leapt away from her position as numerous exploding notes went off around her.
With the sudden impact she was sent flying through the air before being thrown to the ground but she refused to get away from the clearing, after all her teammates were in that tent. She jumped away from were she was a little uneasy, still not fully grounded and pulled out three shuriken in both her hands, resting them between her fingers naturally. When she landed she felt the chakra behind her, just like she knew she would, after all she wasn’t too shabby with battle tactics. “Hakkeshō Kaiten” she whipspered and spun on her heal. She reaesed chakra from all of her chakra points at once creating a blue chakra ball around her, and spun around rapidly, realising her shuriken all around her. after a few seconds she stopped spinning and found her cocky oponent pinned against a tree, a shuriken in the palm of his hand. She lifted a kunai from her weapons pouch and ran towards her oponent. “you’re a Hyuuga!” said a familiar voice when she got near. She placed her kunai to the enemy ninjas throat.
“What do you care?” said the young Hyuuga, she still had her byakugan activated so she could only see his chakra pathways in the fog.
He lifted his hand and said softly, “kai” and the fog began to fade away quikly. She realesed the byakugan and waited for the fog to clear to see her captive. “after that jutsu id say you were Neji-teme, but your defently a chick, so im not quite sure who you are, maybe your Hinata-chans little brat sister” said the young man.
Hinata ajusted her kunai, “how do you know Neji-nee-san and Hanabi-chan?” she asked curiously, but just as she spoke the fog cleared away and she saw the young blonde ninja from her dreams, “N-Naruto-kun!” she whispered and dropped her kunai and jumping a few paces away. Young Uzamaki Naruto was aparently leaning against the tree without a second thought, looking completely at peace, he had his goofy grin firmly in place and his free hand around scratching the back of him head, and his shirt wrapped around his waist.
“Hinata-chan!” he cried and tried to run at her to hug her but was thrown back into the tree he was impailed to. With his usuall goofy antics he began tugging at his hand causing blood to come from his wound. “damn!”
she ran foreward to the adorable young ninja and pulled the shuriken out of his hand. She quickly grabbed it in her own and gan to heal it with a small madical jutsu. “That was amazing Hinata-chan! You’ve improved heaps since I saw you last, your as good as Neji-teme!”the arroagnt young man called as she worked on his bleeeding hand. Once she was done she smiled and looked up at him. It had been so long since he had seen anyone from Konoha, he was wondering how eveyone had changed. He was sure Hinata had to have changed the most though. This was the first time he had ever looked Hinata in the face without her going pink or fainiting, it was something completely different to what he was used to with Hinata. She was five or so inches shorter than him, her hair changed from being short, to being so long it reached down her back. And her eyes had become more pronounced, more feminime and detailed. He had never noticed before but the Hyuuga eyes arnt white like he thought, but pale purple.
His usual goofy grin stil in place he grabbed the young kunoichi and wrapped her into an intence hug that almost squeezed the life out of her.
After she took in his apreance to she smiled as he wrapped his arms around her, she hugged him back, then realised that he was shirtless. Her hands were on his smooth toned back before she realised it, her face went crimson within seconds, she felt as though she was about to faint, though something beat her to the punch. He felt somethng solid hit the back of her head and she slumped into unconciousness in Naruto’s arms.

The first sencation that returned to her was touch. She felt warm and comfortable, in a sleeping bag pehaps, and her cheeks were warm and moving.
Next she could hear things again, first the sounds of the forest, the wind blowing, the campire near her, the a loud noise that snapped her into realisty “Naruto-baka! Leave her alone, pay attention to me!” a frustereated yound voice screamed.
The movement of her cheek stopped, “oh sorry Kiba,” Naruto mumbled and let his hand slide of Hinata’s cheek.. she could feel the sheets beneith her sink a little and knew he was still close.
She opened her eyes to look around. The first thing she saw was a big blur of oragne and black right beside her. she smiled as the figure became clear and she saw the sorce of her dreams sitting beside her.
“So then there 3 ninja jumped out and attacked us!” cried out Kiba to Naruto who seemed to be vaugly paying attention, “of corse I didn’t freak out or anything, right Akamaru!” he was yelling. Hinata smiled as she kept her eyes only a little bit opened and saw Naruto turn from Kiba again and begin to stroke her hand abseltmindedly.
Her heart began to speed up so fast she was surprised that Naruto couldn’t hear her. part of her wanted him to notice she was awake and talk to her, the other half never wanted him to stop touching her hand. “and that’s how I saved the-HINATA-CHAN!” Kiba cried when he saw her awake. She opened her eyes properly to show she was really awake and began to curse Kiba. Naruto spun around, letting his hand slid off hers.
“Hinata-chan! Thank god your ok, ero-sannin didn’t realise it was you and threw a rock at you to knock you out! But don’t worry Hinata-chan, I got him back for you,” Naruto blurted out leaning over her, almost scaring her with the intencity he was using to try to get her to realize how serious he was.
She smiled and began to sit up. Naruto went falling backwards as Kiba pulled him away from Hinata so she could move, “dude i know you were worried and all but give her a bit of breathig space geez, you’ve already bashed Jirija-sama I think she gets your sorry,” with this Hinata spun around to see the legendray toad sannin Jirija-sama sitting on the other side of the campfire sulking with a chipped tooth and two black eyes.
Hinata jumped from her bed and ran to the toad sannin, “oh my god! Jiriya-sama are you ok?” she cried when she reached the older man. An evil smirk apeared across the old mans face as he looked up and down Hinata in her fish-net training shirt, a small trickle of blood began to slide down his nose as he sized up her perfect curves and largeish bust.
A fist went flying at the mans face, sending him into the nearest tree, a fuming Naruto standing next the the place were the sannin once was. Naruto was shaking like mad, fuming and red in the face, “never… never look at Hinata-chan like that again, you pervert,” Naruto whispered still shaking. He had seen the things Jiriya had done to the other girls he liked, or tired to do to those he like, and he would not stand for him to look at Hinata, or think about Hinata in that way.
The angry blonde started to stalk towards the unconsious man, pure bloodlust seeping from him. The young man lifted the white haired man with one hand, Hinata jumping to her feet behind him. “Naruto-kun, please put him down!” Hinata cried franticly. When her only response was Naruto pulling his fist back to hit the man she poked him in the arm that he was using to hold up the Sannin with her jukken.
She used chakra in the hit and made Naruto’s hand week at once, making him drop the man. Naruto spun on Hinata, his eyes red with black slits, the bloodlust rushing into her. Her face pailed and her eyes fell wide open. She fell to her knees and started silently crying. Naruto’s own eyes widened in shock and fell back to their usual blue eyes. He dropped to his knees before Hinata “ H-Hinata-chan, im so sorry I-I never… I-I just don’t want… He’s a pervert and I..” after a few seconds he stopped stuttering an looked away from her concealed face, “I don’t want to see you get hurt like that,” very slowly, slower than he usually moves, he wrapped his arms around Hinata and pulled her into a tight hug, “ill never let anyone hurt you,” he whispered into her ear so only she could hear him. Even though she was still crying, it was no longer in fear but absoulute joy no one had said those words since her out-cast of a mother died.

After a few minutes Hinata showed Naruto she was ok, so they went to the campfire and sat around talking about the changes in the last 3 years. Naruto shared every detail of his training, only leaving out things he’s learnt and wanted them to be a bang when he showed them. Kiba explained about the little to none changes in the systems of government in Konoha. and suprisingly Naruto didn’t get annoyed when they told him that all of the origonal rookie 9 were Chunin, because of his advanced training Jiraiya had been told to give him the premotion of Chunin when he belived he was ready. So a year ago he was given the title of Chunin.
Hinata cept quite, bright red during most of their talking, her hair covering her face. As they talked Naruto kept his hand around her sholders as though to protect her from a very anoyed toad Sannin on the oposite side of the campfire.
Once the fire began to sink down Hinata was the first to stand.  “Gomen, I-im tired from the excitement from the day, I-I might go t-to bed now,” Kiba and Shino nodded and returned to talking.
Naruto stood up with her and started for the tent Hinata was going for. A kunai flew straight past his face, missing his by centemetres. He spun around to see Kiba with his hand still raised from when he threw the kunai. Naruto opened his mouth to yell at the boy when he was cut off, “your not sleeping with Hinata-chan as long as im around, you couldn’t keep your hands off her when she was out last time, I dunno what youll do this time,” with this Naruto turned crimson red and mumbled something before sitting back down, Hinata had her head bowed at the door of the tent, her long bangs covereing her scarlet face.
“I-I was j-just going to walk her to her tent” Naruto muttered out before turning his back on the campfire and the weird looks and snuggeling into his sleeping bag.

For the next day the group of ninja’s ran back to Konoha to report their missions and their achievements. Once back in Konoha Naruto and Jiraiya went in to talk to Tsunade first and Hinata, Kiba and Shino waited outside. After a few minutes they herd Tsunade scram, “WHAT? HINATA-CHAN?” and someone or something being thrown across the room. Hinata’s teammates turned to her to see her burn up and drop her head so her hair covered her face, which was becoming her new habit. After a few more minutes Naruto walked out, gave Hinata a quick hug, Shino and Kiba firm handshake and announced that he had to go move some things. A medical squad went into the room before them and came out a few seconds later carrying a bruised and broken Jiraiya.
The three walked into the office and stood in front of the Hokage in full attention. After a quick mission briefing and a handover of the paperwork Shino had filled out they were ready to finally return home. The sun began to set out of the Hokage’s window she finished all the formalities, “ok Hinata-chan, you will need to move your stuff into your apartment still, and you have your room mate moving into your apartment now, so you are dismissed,”
“Hai, Tsunade-same, thank you,” with that the three team mates walked out of the Hokage’s office.

Hinata was in her own world. For three years Naruto had left her all alone in this world, she had become stronger and colder, but within the 2 days she had spent back with him, he had gotten friendlier with her. She smiled when she remembered him trying to go to sleep with her. He was flirting compulsively and didn’t even notice it. She couldn’t help but smile at his ignorance to his own behaviour.
“Hinata-san,” a voice called from behind her. She turned around in the middle of the street she was walking down in annoyance towards whom ever interrupted her thoughts about Naruto. She was shocked to see a Hyuuga branch family member. When they landed before her the young woman gave a bow towards Hinata, who merely nodded. “Neji-san wished for me to find you and make sure you had found sufficient housing-” held up her hand with a small smile to stop the branch family member.
“I have found an apartment, I will never be a burden to the Hyuuga family ever again,” Hinata said in a small emotionless voice that made the Hyuugas so scary, the only thing that made her different was her small smile. The Hyuuga nodded looking taken back and jumped off along the rooftops towards the Hyuuga estate.
Hinata opened the door to her new apartment to see her bags in the living room. She removed her shoes to take a look around the apartment. The walls were white with blue flowers that she didn’t know the name of, along the base of the walls. In the living room a futon was set up, and to the side of the room was a relatively large kitchen. Off to both sides of the living room there were hallways.
She felt as though she could burst into tears there and then thanks to the generosity shown to her by the Hokage but stopped sharply when a voice interrupted her.
“Hinata-chan! What are you doing here?” Naruto said running down the hallway to her left, “im waiting for my room mate to arrive,” he said nervously looking behind Hinata.
“Um, this is my new apartment Naruto-kun,” Hinata replied realising what the situation was straight away.
“Oh, dammit, I must have to wrong apartment then,” he said smacking himself in the head, “its room 5,” he turned towards were he came.
“This is room 5,” Hinata told him slowly.
“Then why are you here?” he asked flabbergasted
Now it was Hinata’s turn to smack herself in the forehead, though at the same time she couldn’t help but beam for joy as she thought about living with Naruto, the proposition of becoming used to his presence, she might even get enough courage around him to tell him how she felt. “Im your roommate Naruto-kun,”
“So no sneaking into her bed at night when she’s sleeping,” they both spun at Kiba’s voice to see Kiba, Shino and Sakura at the doorway.
Hinata blushed like mad and bowed her head, her long hair covering her face again, “umm, Kiba-kun, Shino-kun, Sakura-chan, what are you doing here?” she asked timidly.
“Were here to help you guys unpack of corse, and im here to see Naruto,” said Sakura fixing her hair as she admired Naruto’s new form. She took a few steps toward him, ignoring Hinata’s annoyed glare, “you really have change, Naruto-kun,” she battered her eyelashes.
By this time Hinata was grinding her teeth at the pink haired girl. Naruto was just pleasantly oblivious, “Sakura-chan! Its great to see you,” he said sweetly as he hugged her quickly before remembering all the times she’d hit him for doing so in the past and he quickly realized her. He didn’t realise she basically drooled at the feel of his toned body against hers.
“You too, hey I have to go now, but how would you like to catch up for ramen tonight, say around 7?” Naruto looked confused but Sakura answered for him, “Perfect, it’s a date,”
“It is?” Hinata and Naruto asked in unison, though no one noticed Hinata.
“Sure is,” she leaned forward and rubbed her body close against his again and whispered something in his ear that only he could hear. His eyes went wide and he blushed before she walked out with a “bye guys,” and a blown kiss to Hinata.
“What the hell was that about?” Kiba asked after a few minutes of silence.
Naruto shrugged, “Hinata do you know?” he turned to the Hyuuga girl to find her no were in the room and the master bedroom at the end of the hall’s door, locked and closed.
Vaguely Naruto could hear a noise in the room but didn’t pay any attention, she was probability just happy for him and took a shower or something. So he just figured he should be happy to and started to talk to the boys.

Hinata was in her room crying into a pillow. The room was bare except the one photo frame she had in her backpack that she had with her when she ran into her room. The photo was a picture of Naruto, Kiba, Shino Sakura and herself. Naruto was smiling looking over to Sakura, Sakura was just posing for the camera, and Hinata was under Kiba’s arm, playing with her fingers looking at Naruto.
With a low growl she drew a kunai and threw it at the photo frame. The kunai pushed it to the wall then impaled it there, the blade straight through Sakura’s head.
‘What have I done? Im being selfish even though Naruto is happy,’ she thought stifling tears and she walked up to the picture and pulled the kunai from Sakura’s large face, “no, im just not denying my own emotions for anyone else,”
“Hinata?” came Naruto’s voice from the other side of the door. After a minute without a reply, only sounds of someone moving around inside, he opened the door and peered inside to see it empty. He walked into the room and saw the bed messy and tear marks all over the pillow, “Hinata, were are you?” he whispered as he looked out the window to see her figure running along the rooftops.
In dismay he went and sat on her bed. He dropped backwards and put his hands over his eyes.  He sat up quickly at the sharp stabbing of glass at the back of his head. On the bed was the shattered photo frame
Naruto lifted it and dusted the glass off into the small bin under the bedside table. He smiled in reminiscence as he looked at the photo. Kiba was poking his tongue out rudely with Hinata under his arm. Hinata looked so nervous as she played with her fingers. This brought a bigger smile to his lips; he looked so cute back then when she would do that. She was so weird, but always so polite and nervous. Such a difference to the Hinata he knew now. Shino was inconspicuous in the background. He was staring at Sakura with pure admiration shining in his eyes and for the first time he noticed the cut right through Sakura face. He turned it around to see that the blade had gone through to the back. The cut looked fresh, but he didn’t understand why there would be a cut in the first place.
He shrugged it off and walked out of Hinata’s room back to his own to start unpacking before his date.

After liking her for as long as Naruto has like the pink haired kunoichi, he couldn’t help but realize how boring she really was. They had eaten their ramen in semi silence that was only broken by Naruto and his quirkiness. Now they walked together through the Konoha Park. It was a full moon and she was wearing Naruto's jacket after saying she was cold. Naruto was the only one talking and tried not to notice Sakura rolling her eyes as he talked.
“And the when I was impaled to the tree, Hinata finally realized it was me! Then ero-sannin knocked her out, and also tried hitting on her, but I protected her and kept her from him,” he said with a big smile.
“Can we go back to your place and get out of the cold?” she asked seductively ignoring the prior conversation.
Naruto looked confused for a moment but than smiled, “yeah, if Hinata-chan doesn’t mind sure, than I can walk you home later,” he said sweetly.
“Great,” she said before walking ahead of her date.

Description
A NaruHina story

The young Hyuuga heiress coughed and fell to her knees for the 5th time that day. Neji glared at the weaker girl as he walked up to her to help her to her feet, “you are a disgrace,” he whispered in her ear once she was on her feet. He released her and walked up to Hiashi Hyuuga and with a polite bow he said formally, “Hiashi-sama, if you don’t mind my leaving I have other duties now,” he said with as much respect for the Hyuuga lord as possible. With a stiff not and a snarl on his features he nodded and let his nephew walk off to his morning duties.
The young ebony haired girl stood in the center of the dojo holding her right shoulder, her long hair covering her down turned face. With hatred in his every movement he forced chakra into the tips of his fingers like his jukken and roughly lifted her face to meet his, she let out a startled cry as her eyes were forced to meet her fathers, tears softly leaking down from her blank emotionless eyes. After years of torture and insults thrown at her from her family, and no Naruto to make her stronger she held away her emotion and just glared back to her father, “you are disgraceful, after all these years of training you are still beat by a branch member, you are no heiress,” he spat at her, and roughly released his fingers from her chin.
He spun on his heal away from his failure of a daughter and went to walk out of the training area. “This weeks pay will be your last, then I want you out of this house,”
After years of building up her courage, of becoming a true ninja who could stand up to those in her path, she still could never be rude to her family, to them she was always a failure, and to her she would be.
She placed her fringe behind her ears and walked off to pack her bags, after all she got paid today meaning she had to be gone by tomorrow.

“Ok Kiba, Hinata, Shino, you are dismissed, your mission will start at dawn tomorrow,” with a deep bow and a chorus of “hai,” they all went for the door, “Hinata-chan, please wait here for a second I wish to talk to you,” said the blonde Hokage.
Hinata turned around with a brief “hai,” then stood in front of the Hokage, somewhat nervous.
“I've herd the Hyuuga council have dismissed you as a Hyuuga and thrown you form your home,” the kunoichi said as she indicated to the seat in front of her, trying to get the young ex-heiress to seat.
Reluctantly she sat down looking extremely nervous, “h-hai,” beside her father and the rest of the Hyuugas she only kept her shy facade in front of high authority figures, such as the Hokage before her. She began to play with her fingers in her lap to distract herself.
“Have you found a place to stay?” asked the lady in front of her.
“H-hai, Hokage-sama, I-im staying with Yamanaka Ino for a few days,” she whispered to the older woman.
“From then on were do you plan on staying?”
‘Even on my own I cant do anything, I have nowhere to go. Maybe I am that useless,’ she mocked silently to herself, turning slightly pink in the cheeks she whispered even softer, “I don’t know, Hokage-sama”
The large breasted lady stood from her seat, the younger kunoichi still refusing to look up at her, “well I have things to do, and you have to pack for your mission tomorrow,” she walked up to the girl and dropped a note attached to some keys in the pale eyed girls lap, “when you return you can move into your new apartment, though sometime in the future you may get a roommate,” said the old woman helping her to her feet.
The plain violet eyed girl looked up to her Hokage in disbelief, tears brimming her eyes, “are you serious?” she asked her voice shaking “h-h-Hokage-sama!” After a quick nod from the blonde woman Hinata beamed and hugged the lady before being ushered out of her office.

Hinata sat in front of the campfire she had made; she was shocked to say the least about what she had done. Behind her both her teammates lay unconscious in her tent, she had most of the basic medical jutsu’s down so she had healed all their wounds, their only reason for unconsciousness was their lack of chakra.
She remembered the fight. She was fighting with Kiba and Shino as always, and by the time she had killed her opponent she turned to find her comrades on the ground, and their opponents meters away from them dead as well. Even Akamaru was out to it. She was still wondering how she managed to survive it unscratched and still have half her chakra reserves; she must have got the weak one, that’s all she could conclude. She took her ninja headband off from around her neck and placed it on the ground next to her.
She sat there, her hair covering her face as it always did, it was finally long enough to, ever since 3 years ago when the boy she had always admired had left, she stopped keeping her hair short, she let it grow long so maybe she could impress him like Sakura-chan used to when she had long hair. She was on a log next to the fire in her normal training pants and her netted armor undershirt. She rarely wore it by itself but everyone was unconscious, and there were no pools anywhere for her to bath in to cool her off, and if there were she couldn’t leave her teammates unattended and she just removed her hoody. She had trained non-stop for 3 years until she became Chuunin, even then she was the only one from the original rookie 9 that still trained like mad. Everyone else was proud of themselves so they didn’t bother improving too much except Hinata, and of course Naruto, but he was long gone.
She couldn’t help but remember the young ninja she had liked so much. He was short and blonde, his bright blue eyes always full of determination, that’s what she really loved about him. He was always eager to fight and protect those he cared for, even if he didn’t like them, he would protect anyone he could. That’s what made him her hero.
She closed her eyes in her usually daydream, of her young and charming Naruto
Dream
She sits there along in a park; it is nighttime but bright from the moonlight. She lay on the featherlike grass staring up at the cloudless night sky. A small movement catches her eyes and she site up to see Naruto just out of the shadows of a tree watching her, a faint blush on his cheeks.
He smiles his cute little smile, “Hinata-hime,” he whispers softly in the breeze and walks towards her. When he reaches her kneels in front of her, her heart begins to race. He placed his soft hand on her cheek and leans towards her, slowly pinning her to the soft grass before planting a soft kiss on her lips.
End dream

“-Sigh- oh Naruto-kun, I wish you were here,” she whispered and whipped away a stray tear.

Two male companions ran from tree branch to tree branch to tree branch on their way home after 3 long years or training. On the left was a medium build man in what looked to be his late 30s early 40s. He had very long spiked white hair, and a red line cascading from under each eye. His companion was taller than him; he had bright yellow blonde hair and vivid blue eyes. He wore normal black training pants and an orange and black jacket wrapped around his waist, on his chest was nothing, not even a thin layer of sweat. He was 16 years old with a torn and toned tanned body. With a start he stopped on a branch and stopped his teammate, his Konoha leaf ninja headband shining in the moonlight on his forehead, blinding the white haired man momentarily.
“Baka! Don’t just stop were not home ye-” the old man yelled at his young student before being silenced by the younger mans hand.
With an impatient look the young ninja glared at his sensei “Ero-sannin! Shut up there is a campfire near by so don’t go screaming at the top of your lungs!” the arrogant young ninja screamed at the older ninja, making more noise than the perverted old man, “stay her ill cheek it out,” he said softer and did a few hand signs and whispered the words to release the jutsu. Instantly a thick fog began to roll in from behind him and cover a kilometer radius. The old Sannin took a seat and waited for the impatient boy to return.

Hinata saw the fog begin to roll in at an uniquely fast pace, she drew a kunai and activated her Byakugan, the thin light blue veins popping out from around her eyes as she began to see the chakra flow of everything around her.
She turned towards the tent that she had placed her injured comrades in and placed a chakra lock on the tent. With kunai still in hand she walked over to the small fire and put it out, she planned on making the mist work to her Byakugan’s advantage. She poured a small cup over its ashes and reached for her Konoha headband. As she wrapped her hand around her forehead protector a senbon was sent at her hand, just enough to graze the top of it.  She bolted upright and threw a kunai at the direction were the ninja had been, and then jumped back with intense ninja speed.
When she landed shuriken were thrown were she had been minutes ago, quickly making a line to were she was now. She leapt to a tree behind her and waited. She could see were the infiltrator was now he was directly across the clearing to her, searching around to find his victim. With a smile she sped along the branches sure not to make a sound or movement on the tree’s she was running along. She came up behind him and slit his neck from behind making herself wonder briefly when she became so quick to kill her victim. The body choked, then turned into a puff of smoke, ‘shadow clone! Dammit they have chakra fused with the clones, I cant tell the difference,’ she cried and leapt away from her position as numerous exploding notes went off around her.
With the sudden impact she was sent flying through the air before being thrown to the ground but she refused to get away from the clearing, after all her teammates were in that tent. She jumped away from were she was a little uneasy, still not fully grounded and pulled out three shuriken in both her hands, resting them between her fingers naturally. When she landed she felt the chakra behind her, just like she knew she would, after all she wasn’t too shabby with battle tactics. “Hakkeshō Kaiten” she whipspered and spun on her heal. She reaesed chakra from all of her chakra points at once creating a blue chakra ball around her, and spun around rapidly, realising her shuriken all around her. after a few seconds she stopped spinning and found her cocky oponent pinned against a tree, a shuriken in the palm of his hand. She lifted a kunai from her weapons pouch and ran towards her oponent. “you’re a Hyuuga!” said a familiar voice when she got near. She placed her kunai to the enemy ninjas throat.
“What do you care?” said the young Hyuuga, she still had her byakugan activated so she could only see his chakra pathways in the fog.
He lifted his hand and said softly, “kai” and the fog began to fade away quikly. She realesed the byakugan and waited for the fog to clear to see her captive. “after that jutsu id say you were Neji-teme, but your defently a chick, so im not quite sure who you are, maybe your Hinata-chans little brat sister” said the young man.
Hinata ajusted her kunai, “how do you know Neji-nee-san and Hanabi-chan?” she asked curiously, but just as she spoke the fog cleared away and she saw the young blonde ninja from her dreams, “N-Naruto-kun!” she whispered and dropped her kunai and jumping a few paces away. Young Uzamaki Naruto was aparently leaning against the tree without a second thought, looking completely at peace, he had his goofy grin firmly in place and his free hand around scratching the back of him head, and his shirt wrapped around his waist.
“Hinata-chan!” he cried and tried to run at her to hug her but was thrown back into the tree he was impailed to. With his usuall goofy antics he began tugging at his hand causing blood to come from his wound. “damn!”
she ran foreward to the adorable young ninja and pulled the shuriken out of his hand. She quickly grabbed it in her own and gan to heal it with a small madical jutsu. “That was amazing Hinata-chan! You’ve improved heaps since I saw you last, your as good as Neji-teme!”the arroagnt young man called as she worked on his bleeeding hand. Once she was done she smiled and looked up at him. It had been so long since he had seen anyone from Konoha, he was wondering how eveyone had changed. He was sure Hinata had to have changed the most though. This was the first time he had ever looked Hinata in the face without her going pink or fainiting, it was something completely different to what he was used to with Hinata. She was five or so inches shorter than him, her hair changed from being short, to being so long it reached down her back. And her eyes had become more pronounced, more feminime and detailed. He had never noticed before but the Hyuuga eyes arnt white like he thought, but pale purple.
His usual goofy grin stil in place he grabbed the young kunoichi and wrapped her into an intence hug that almost squeezed the life out of her.
After she took in his apreance to she smiled as he wrapped his arms around her, she hugged him back, then realised that he was shirtless. Her hands were on his smooth toned back before she realised it, her face went crimson within seconds, she felt as though she was about to faint, though something beat her to the punch. He felt somethng solid hit the back of her head and she slumped into unconciousness in Naruto’s arms.

The first sencation that returned to her was touch. She felt warm and comfortable, in a sleeping bag pehaps, and her cheeks were warm and moving.
Next she could hear things again, first the sounds of the forest, the wind blowing, the campire near her, the a loud noise that snapped her into realisty “Naruto-baka! Leave her alone, pay attention to me!” a frustereated yound voice screamed.
The movement of her cheek stopped, “oh sorry Kiba,” Naruto mumbled and let his hand slide of Hinata’s cheek.. she could feel the sheets beneith her sink a little and knew he was still close.
She opened her eyes to look around. The first thing she saw was a big blur of oragne and black right beside her. she smiled as the figure became clear and she saw the sorce of her dreams sitting beside her.
“So then there 3 ninja jumped out and attacked us!” cried out Kiba to Naruto who seemed to be vaugly paying attention, “of corse I didn’t freak out or anything, right Akamaru!” he was yelling. Hinata smiled as she kept her eyes only a little bit opened and saw Naruto turn from Kiba again and begin to stroke her hand abseltmindedly.
Her heart began to speed up so fast she was surprised that Naruto couldn’t hear her. part of her wanted him to notice she was awake and talk to her, the other half never wanted him to stop touching her hand. “and that’s how I saved the-HINATA-CHAN!” Kiba cried when he saw her awake. She opened her eyes properly to show she was really awake and began to curse Kiba. Naruto spun around, letting his hand slid off hers.
“Hinata-chan! Thank god your ok, ero-sannin didn’t realise it was you and threw a rock at you to knock you out! But don’t worry Hinata-chan, I got him back for you,” Naruto blurted out leaning over her, almost scaring her with the intencity he was using to try to get her to realize how serious he was.
She smiled and began to sit up. Naruto went falling backwards as Kiba pulled him away from Hinata so she could move, “dude i know you were worried and all but give her a bit of breathig space geez, you’ve already bashed Jirija-sama I think she gets your sorry,” with this Hinata spun around to see the legendray toad sannin Jirija-sama sitting on the other side of the campfire sulking with a chipped tooth and two black eyes.
Hinata jumped from her bed and ran to the toad sannin, “oh my god! Jiriya-sama are you ok?” she cried when she reached the older man. An evil smirk apeared across the old mans face as he looked up and down Hinata in her fish-net training shirt, a small trickle of blood began to slide down his nose as he sized up her perfect curves and largeish bust.
A fist went flying at the mans face, sending him into the nearest tree, a fuming Naruto standing next the the place were the sannin once was. Naruto was shaking like mad, fuming and red in the face, “never… never look at Hinata-chan like that again, you pervert,” Naruto whispered still shaking. He had seen the things Jiriya had done to the other girls he liked, or tired to do to those he like, and he would not stand for him to look at Hinata, or think about Hinata in that way.
The angry blonde started to stalk towards the unconsious man, pure bloodlust seeping from him. The young man lifted the white haired man with one hand, Hinata jumping to her feet behind him. “Naruto-kun, please put him down!” Hinata cried franticly. When her only response was Naruto pulling his fist back to hit the man she poked him in the arm that he was using to hold up the Sannin with her jukken.
She used chakra in the hit and made Naruto’s hand week at once, making him drop the man. Naruto spun on Hinata, his eyes red with black slits, the bloodlust rushing into her. Her face pailed and her eyes fell wide open. She fell to her knees and started silently crying. Naruto’s own eyes widened in shock and fell back to their usual blue eyes. He dropped to his knees before Hinata “ H-Hinata-chan, im so sorry I-I never… I-I just don’t want… He’s a pervert and I..” after a few seconds he stopped stuttering an looked away from her concealed face, “I don’t want to see you get hurt like that,” very slowly, slower than he usually moves, he wrapped his arms around Hinata and pulled her into a tight hug, “ill never let anyone hurt you,” he whispered into her ear so only she could hear him. Even though she was still crying, it was no longer in fear but absoulute joy no one had said those words since her out-cast of a mother died.

After a few minutes Hinata showed Naruto she was ok, so they went to the campfire and sat around talking about the changes in the last 3 years. Naruto shared every detail of his training, only leaving out things he’s learnt and wanted them to be a bang when he showed them. Kiba explained about the little to none changes in the systems of government in Konoha. and suprisingly Naruto didn’t get annoyed when they told him that all of the origonal rookie 9 were Chunin, because of his advanced training Jiraiya had been told to give him the premotion of Chunin when he belived he was ready. So a year ago he was given the title of Chunin.
Hinata cept quite, bright red during most of their talking, her hair covering her face. As they talked Naruto kept his hand around her sholders as though to protect her from a very anoyed toad Sannin on the oposite side of the campfire.
Once the fire began to sink down Hinata was the first to stand.  “Gomen, I-im tired from the excitement from the day, I-I might go t-to bed now,” Kiba and Shino nodded and returned to talking.
Naruto stood up with her and started for the tent Hinata was going for. A kunai flew straight past his face, missing his by centemetres. He spun around to see Kiba with his hand still raised from when he threw the kunai. Naruto opened his mouth to yell at the boy when he was cut off, “your not sleeping with Hinata-chan as long as im around, you couldn’t keep your hands off her when she was out last time, I dunno what youll do this time,” with this Naruto turned crimson red and mumbled something before sitting back down, Hinata had her head bowed at the door of the tent, her long bangs covereing her scarlet face.
“I-I was j-just going to walk her to her tent” Naruto muttered out before turning his back on the campfire and the weird looks and snuggeling into his sleeping bag.

For the next day the group of ninja’s ran back to Konoha to report their missions and their achievements. Once back in Konoha Naruto and Jiraiya went in to talk to Tsunade first and Hinata, Kiba and Shino waited outside. After a few minutes they herd Tsunade scram, “WHAT? HINATA-CHAN?” and someone or something being thrown across the room. Hinata’s teammates turned to her to see her burn up and drop her head so her hair covered her face, which was becoming her new habit. After a few more minutes Naruto walked out, gave Hinata a quick hug, Shino and Kiba firm handshake and announced that he had to go move some things. A medical squad went into the room before them and came out a few seconds later carrying a bruised and broken Jiraiya.
The three walked into the office and stood in front of the Hokage in full attention. After a quick mission briefing and a handover of the paperwork Shino had filled out they were ready to finally return home. The sun began to set out of the Hokage’s window she finished all the formalities, “ok Hinata-chan, you will need to move your stuff into your apartment still, and you have your room mate moving into your apartment now, so you are dismissed,”
“Hai, Tsunade-same, thank you,” with that the three team mates walked out of the Hokage’s office.

Hinata was in her own world. For three years Naruto had left her all alone in this world, she had become stronger and colder, but within the 2 days she had spent back with him, he had gotten friendlier with her. She smiled when she remembered him trying to go to sleep with her. He was flirting compulsively and didn’t even notice it. She couldn’t help but smile at his ignorance to his own behaviour.
“Hinata-san,” a voice called from behind her. She turned around in the middle of the street she was walking down in annoyance towards whom ever interrupted her thoughts about Naruto. She was shocked to see a Hyuuga branch family member. When they landed before her the young woman gave a bow towards Hinata, who merely nodded. “Neji-san wished for me to find you and make sure you had found sufficient housing-” held up her hand with a small smile to stop the branch family member.
“I have found an apartment, I will never be a burden to the Hyuuga family ever again,” Hinata said in a small emotionless voice that made the Hyuugas so scary, the only thing that made her different was her small smile. The Hyuuga nodded looking taken back and jumped off along the rooftops towards the Hyuuga estate.
Hinata opened the door to her new apartment to see her bags in the living room. She removed her shoes to take a look around the apartment. The walls were white with blue flowers that she didn’t know the name of, along the base of the walls. In the living room a futon was set up, and to the side of the room was a relatively large kitchen. Off to both sides of the living room there were hallways.
She felt as though she could burst into tears there and then thanks to the generosity shown to her by the Hokage but stopped sharply when a voice interrupted her.
“Hinata-chan! What are you doing here?” Naruto said running down the hallway to her left, “im waiting for my room mate to arrive,” he said nervously looking behind Hinata.
“Um, this is my new apartment Naruto-kun,” Hinata replied realising what the situation was straight away.
“Oh, dammit, I must have to wrong apartment then,” he said smacking himself in the head, “its room 5,” he turned towards were he came.
“This is room 5,” Hinata told him slowly.
“Then why are you here?” he asked flabbergasted
Now it was Hinata’s turn to smack herself in the forehead, though at the same time she couldn’t help but beam for joy as she thought about living with Naruto, the proposition of becoming used to his presence, she might even get enough courage around him to tell him how she felt. “Im your roommate Naruto-kun,”
“So no sneaking into her bed at night when she’s sleeping,” they both spun at Kiba’s voice to see Kiba, Shino and Sakura at the doorway.
Hinata blushed like mad and bowed her head, her long hair covering her face again, “umm, Kiba-kun, Shino-kun, Sakura-chan, what are you doing here?” she asked timidly.
“Were here to help you guys unpack of corse, and im here to see Naruto,” said Sakura fixing her hair as she admired Naruto’s new form. She took a few steps toward him, ignoring Hinata’s annoyed glare, “you really have change, Naruto-kun,” she battered her eyelashes.
By this time Hinata was grinding her teeth at the pink haired girl. Naruto was just pleasantly oblivious, “Sakura-chan! Its great to see you,” he said sweetly as he hugged her quickly before remembering all the times she’d hit him for doing so in the past and he quickly realized her. He didn’t realise she basically drooled at the feel of his toned body against hers.
“You too, hey I have to go now, but how would you like to catch up for ramen tonight, say around 7?” Naruto looked confused but Sakura answered for him, “Perfect, it’s a date,”
“It is?” Hinata and Naruto asked in unison, though no one noticed Hinata.
“Sure is,” she leaned forward and rubbed her body close against his again and whispered something in his ear that only he could hear. His eyes went wide and he blushed before she walked out with a “bye guys,” and a blown kiss to Hinata.
“What the hell was that about?” Kiba asked after a few minutes of silence.
Naruto shrugged, “Hinata do you know?” he turned to the Hyuuga girl to find her no were in the room and the master bedroom at the end of the hall’s door, locked and closed.
Vaguely Naruto could hear a noise in the room but didn’t pay any attention, she was probability just happy for him and took a shower or something. So he just figured he should be happy to and started to talk to the boys.

Hinata was in her room crying into a pillow. The room was bare except the one photo frame she had in her backpack that she had with her when she ran into her room. The photo was a picture of Naruto, Kiba, Shino Sakura and herself. Naruto was smiling looking over to Sakura, Sakura was just posing for the camera, and Hinata was under Kiba’s arm, playing with her fingers looking at Naruto.
With a low growl she drew a kunai and threw it at the photo frame. The kunai pushed it to the wall then impaled it there, the blade straight through Sakura’s head.
‘What have I done? Im being selfish even though Naruto is happy,’ she thought stifling tears and she walked up to the picture and pulled the kunai from Sakura’s large face, “no, im just not denying my own emotions for anyone else,”
“Hinata?” came Naruto’s voice from the other side of the door. After a minute without a reply, only sounds of someone moving around inside, he opened the door and peered inside to see it empty. He walked into the room and saw the bed messy and tear marks all over the pillow, “Hinata, were are you?” he whispered as he looked out the window to see her figure running along the rooftops.
In dismay he went and sat on her bed. He dropped backwards and put his hands over his eyes.  He sat up quickly at the sharp stabbing of glass at the back of his head. On the bed was the shattered photo frame
Naruto lifted it and dusted the glass off into the small bin under the bedside table. He smiled in reminiscence as he looked at the photo. Kiba was poking his tongue out rudely with Hinata under his arm. Hinata looked so nervous as she played with her fingers. This brought a bigger smile to his lips; he looked so cute back then when she would do that. She was so weird, but always so polite and nervous. Such a difference to the Hinata he knew now. Shino was inconspicuous in the background. He was staring at Sakura with pure admiration shining in his eyes and for the first time he noticed the cut right through Sakura face. He turned it around to see that the blade had gone through to the back. The cut looked fresh, but he didn’t understand why there would be a cut in the first place.
He shrugged it off and walked out of Hinata’s room back to his own to start unpacking before his date.

After liking her for as long as Naruto has like the pink haired kunoichi, he couldn’t help but realize how boring she really was. They had eaten their ramen in semi silence that was only broken by Naruto and his quirkiness. Now they walked together through the Konoha Park. It was a full moon and she was wearing Naruto's jacket after saying she was cold. Naruto was the only one talking and tried not to notice Sakura rolling her eyes as he talked.
“And the when I was impaled to the tree, Hinata finally realized it was me! Then ero-sannin knocked her out, and also tried hitting on her, but I protected her and kept her from him,” he said with a big smile.
“Can we go back to your place and get out of the cold?” she asked seductively ignoring the prior conversation.
Naruto looked confused for a moment but than smiled, “yeah, if Hinata-chan doesn’t mind sure, than I can walk you home later,” he said sweetly.
“Great,” she said before walking ahead of her date.