Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Long Waiting ❯ When He was Dying ( Chapter 6 )

A Long Waiting

Manga: Naruto

Genre: Hentai/Angst/Drama/Romance

Type: Continuation

Rate: 17+

Pairings: Hinata-Neji, Hinata-Naruto

Summary: Naruto finally knew that Hinata loved him, and deep inside his heart, he loved her back. However, his training with Jiraiya was the only thing that prevented him to be together with Hinata. Before he left, he said to Hinata to wait for him. Could Hinata do it, when her guardian, Hyuuga Neji, love her not as a cousin?

Chapter 6: When He was Dying

Maybe she would realize it all when he was dying…

There on her room, the two girls sat facing each other, each face contorted with sorrow and grief. The raven haired girl played with the hem of her pyjamas nervously, her face stained with tears. The pink haired girl who was sitting in front of her only gaped, speechless.

“Shimata…” Sakura said after a grief moment. Hearing the words out of her, Hinata began to cry more loudly.

“Tell me, the whole story… it's all lie, isn't it? Right?” demanded Sakura hopefully, as if someone would pop out from nowhere and shouted; `April's Fool!!'

“I… I truly hope it was all lie, th- that it was only just a nightmare, a very creepy nightmare, but it wasn't… Sakura-san… I… I don't know what I should do!! I felt everything I have all gone! The first is Naruto-kun, and now my virginity! I don't have anything left!!! ANYTHING!!!” Hinata cried out her lungs, screaming uncontrollably.

“Calm down, Hinata! Calm down!” Sakura hurried her self to hug Hinata, tried to redeem a bit of her wrath.

“I… I don't know what to do, Sakura-san…” Hinata's voice turned weak, she grasped on Sakura's shirt and buried her head on Sakura's shoulder. Sakura felt the tears from Hinata's eyes quickly wetting her shirt, the sign that her tears fell down swiftly.

“Naruto-kun… he told me to wait for him, b- but… what I have done!? I betrayed him, and the one who did it to me is my own cousin! Naruto-kun will hate me! He will leave me!” Hinata sobbed crazily, and Sakura almost lost control too. She almost cried; it hurt her so much to see her best friend suffered like that.

“It is okay, Hinata-chan…” Sakura said in a croaking voice, tried her best not to cry. She knew if she did so, it would only add burden to Hinata.

“If anyone need to be blamed, it was Neji… he was the one who made you suffer like this… hate and blame, they are all on him…” continued Sakura, patting on Hinata's back, “besides, Naruto… he would never, ever hate you… you and I know him well, Hinata. He will never be a short-tempered guy in problem like this… I know it feels hard on you, and I couldn't ask you to stay strong by yourself, because it is impossible. So that's why I promise you that I will always be here with you, to support you…”

“Sakura-san…” Hinata looked up at her friend, and she found Sakura was smiling softly at her.

“Arigatou…”Hinata sniffed and tightened her embrace on Sakura.

“Don't mention it…” Sakura shook her head, “now why don't you go to sleep? You seem really tired; I bet you didn't get good sleep these days, eh?”

“Y- Yes…” Hinata withdrew the hug, and turned her body to her side of the bed, “Thank you… Sakura-san…”

Sakura smiled and caressed Hinata's hair. It was not long until she finally fell asleep, and Sakura has already waited for that. When she was sure that Hinata couldn't hear her anymore, she opened the drawer beside her bed, almost not making a sound.

She took out and read Naruto's letter once more, and then she pulled it closer to her chest. The anxiousness clearly written on her face, her worries of Hinata's problem, and also the reaction that Naruto would give when he heard of this problem. No. Naruto should never hear any of this. NEVER, with capital letters.

Placing back the letter inside the drawer, Sakura then laid her body on the bed. Tears were rolling down slowly on her cheek. She didn't make any sound of crying, she didn't want to disturb Hinata's sleep.

`At least, she should have a beautiful sleep tonight, that's the only thing I could give to her right now…'

-break-

“Wh- What do you mean, I shouldn't tell this to Naruto-kun, Sakura-san!? B- But… Naruto-kun has to know about this… I- I thought I should… I should tell him!” said Hinata nervously the next morning, after Sakura had asked her to keep shut about the story.

“Shh… Hinata I don't mean that you shouldn't tell him at all... you will tell him, of course… someday, yeah… someday, when it has come to the right condition,” said Sakura, pressing the word `someday' strongly, as if the day would never come.

“B- But… Sakura-san…”

“Don't you think that it would also surprise Naruto so much, if you said it to him in a sudden? And that's why, Hinata-chan, you shouldn't tell it yet, you get it?” demanded Sakura one last time.

“O-”

“Hinata-sama!” suddenly the door of Sakura's room flung open. There, stood the person who opened the door, one of the servants of Hyuuga's mansion. She was breathless; her face was as pale as chalk.

“Shiyaku, How rude of you to barge in like that?” said Hinata in a soft voice, though everyone on the room could feel the tense of her voice. Sakura was quite surprised with the sudden change of Hinata's behavior. Well, it was expected for a girl who will lead the Hyuuga Clan one day.

“Sumimasen, Hinata-sama! I didn't mean to barge in like that, but this is an emergency!” Shiyaku bowed so deeply, “and I'm sorry that I have disturbed you two, Hinata-sama and Sakura-sama!”

“Err… it's all right,” said Sakura clumsily, since she was never called as `Sakura-sama' before.

“Actually, what is it, Shiyaku?” said Hinata gracefully. Sakura couldn't help but admire how Hinata managed to hid all her sorrows quickly. So much power hidden beneath her small figure.

“It is Neji-sama. He was found dying on his room. He suffered a very deep wound on his head, it seemed because he had banged his head against the wall. He was now on the Hospital.”

-break-

The air inside the ward was mixing with the smell of medicine, making a strange atmosphere of hygiene. Neji Hyuuga was lying on the bed on the centre of the room, he was unconscious. Looking so weak as if he was near the gate of death. The Medical Nin has cut his hair into a very short one, almost as short as Kiba's.

“Neji-niisan…” whispered Hinata in aghast. She and Sakura hurried herself to his bed, getting a better look of Neji's condition.

“He suffered a skull crack, his head wounded about ten centimeters or so, and it seemed he pulled his hair with his hand so roughly, the skins of his head were bleeding here and there and also making strange baldness in his head. We have to cut his hair to disguise it,” said Tsunade, who was accompanying Sakura and Hinata to Neji's ward.

“No…” Sakura cupped her mouth with her hands in horror, while Hinata, too shocked to react.

“And one more thing, Hinata-chan, and this is the hardest one,” Tsunade sighed, “The crash on his head has affected his brain, right on his chakra control. He can't use any Ninjutsu or even Genjutsu until the wound on his head was perfectly healed.”

“And… when will it be…?” asked Hinata in a grief voice.

“More than a year,” replied Tsunade not willingly. It was hard to let Hinata know about it, after all Hinata was one of her favourite Kunoichi besides Sakura.

“No, Neji-niisan… No! NOO~!” Hinata threw herself on Neji's chest, sobbing crazily there. Neji was so proud with his Jyuuken technique, and what would it be if he couldn't use his technique? Being in that condition was also meant that his title of Jyounin was useless, he couldn't even do a B-ranked mission at all!

“Sakura,” Tsunade called her and gestured that it would be best if they got out from the room. Sakura nodded and followed Tsunade outside, to her office.

“Tsunade-sama,” Sakura called when they're already outside, making sure that no one could hear them.

“Hmm?”

“Is there… is there any other way to heal Neji-san? You're one of the Sannin! I… I'm so worried about him, especially about Hinata-chan… I… I don't know how to explain it, but… Neji's condition… it is just adding burden to Hinata-chan… Hinata-chan… she has already got a big problem on her right now…” Sakura sobbed.

“I knew it,” Tsunade sighed.

“Eh?” Sakura gaped at her teacher.

“After all, as you said, Sakura. I am a Sannin. I could heal him easily, of course, but I knew the thing Neji had done to Hinata, and how suffering Hinata is now,” explained Tsunade.

“Then why don't you heal him!?” Sakura shouted angrily at her.

“Of course I will heal him! I'm not an old hag who will sit down calmly when one of her subordinate was dying! The reason why I postponed his medical treatment is because I'm also concerned about Hinata!” said Tsunade angrily.

“What do you mean about that!? It seems not helping at all, Tsunade-sama!”

“Stupid girl! Don't you know that Hinata is so confused right now!? She couldn't decide whether she really hates her brother or not! This was the only way to make Hinata realize! This is not a simple problem, young girl! I'm afraid what would happen if Hinata is pregnant because of him! Then it can only be solved with marriage!” explained Tsunade.

“B- But… what about Naruto?” Sakura gaped.

“Hinata have to leave him,” demanded Tsunade.

Outside the room, a raven haired girl rushed after hearing the conversation. Her tears could have never fallen down swifter than this time.

-break-

“Open the gate, quick!! It's them!! IT IS THEM!!” the gate guards outside Konoha quickly gave the sign to his comrade at the control room. The Gate than opened sooner with a loud crack.

“Hmmm!! How I really miss the smell of this smelly village!!” a blonde guy who's wearing black-orange jacket grinned happily as he stepped inside.

“Me too, though there are not much babe in this- HEY!! Hot Chick over there! Waittaaa~~!!” The big, white haired Shinobi who accompanied the guy quickly leave him, approaching the babe who was clearly afraid of him.

“Humph, still no change at all, idiot pervert,” the blonde guy sighed, “so now… where's my Hinata-chan?”

The blonde guy hummed and search around the village for his lover.

-break-

AN: Okay!! It is done for chapter six!! Now gather around, kids, lemme tell you about the some changes in this fic…

Naruto: Gee, stupid author… why did you have to make changes!?

Hinata: I- it's all because this is a fan fiction, Naruto-kun…

Naruto: I got it then, Hinata-chan! *nodded seriously, even though it was clearly shown that he wasn't understand at all*

AN: Aaaaaahhhhh… Hinata-chwannnnn~~~ only you who could understand me *hurried self to hug Hinata*

Hinata: *kicks me violently* there are too much touching scenes of me in this fic, Author-sama, I hope you do mind not to add it in this Author's Note…

AN: *Bleeding all over and suffered swift nosebleed* well, in my fic, there are no training and meeting with Kakashi told *wiped blood* no mission to save Gaara *couldn't wipe blood anymore since the blood was too swift* no Jinchuuriki at all and those Akatsuki thingy *the blood turned to flood XD* it's all concentrated in this problem, okay? *Blood Flood reached knee, Naruto and Hinata finally concentrate on their chakra to walk on Blood Flood* But don't worry for Gaara's fans, Gaara will play a role in this fic bet- gulp -that you will like it *drown because of the Blood Flood*

Gaara: Blood… *shiver*

AN: *Suddenly head popped out, and somehow managed to float for a moment* And if anybody has any question about this fic (and I bet you are, because this stupid fic is kinda complicated) just review first and leave the question there! I will answer it straightly to you! For the people who are not the members of this site, I'll send the answer on the next chappie!! Err…. What are you looking at, Gaara?

Gaara: Blood *licking lips hungrily*

AN: Err… y- you didn't mean to…

Gaara: BLOOD!!!

AN: Yikes!! *got chased by Gaara who was bringing fork and knife together with him*