Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Caught part one The Goddess ❯ chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

“What?” Naruto leaned forward. “What did the old pervert say?”

 

“Shut up for a minute” She pushed the boy back, finished the letter. Folding it and placing back in the envelope she tucked in the folds of her tight clothing. “Its nothing for you to be concerned about.” She smiled at the irritated boy.

 

He crossed his arms “If its about Sasuke I want to know”

 

Her laugh was one of amusement. “I'm sure Sakura told you of her latest mission. You aren't on the `no one' list.”

 

“No one?”

 

“I told her to tell no one. She must have taken you off the list”

 

He smiled. “Yeah she loves me”

 

“And you her apparently” Her smile turned into a playful smirk.

 

“Uh, yeah” He blushed. “But not like you think”

 

“Oh,” She successfully changed to subject. “So you don't see her as your sister and closest family?”

 

“Come on Tsunade, lets finish going through the box. I'm sure there are some interesting things in there” he laughed nervously.

 

“psh, perverted stuff I'm sure”

 

Most of the box was full of pictures. Some big, small, old, and new. The other half held a paper bad, a small box with Kakashi written on it, and a copy of all five books he had written; The four Icha Icha books and the fifth, with the picture of some naked girl on ot.

 

Taking out the small box Naruto placed it on the table. “I'll give this to Kaka-sensei later.”

 

Tsunade nodded, only half paying attention. In her hand was a photo. One in which she was holding rather tightly. He leaned over and took a peek. The photo was taken just before Jiriaya had left for his last mission. He and Tsunade were leaning against a tree somewhere in the forest with their eyes closed, lost in blissful thought. The picture screamed contentment.

 

“I didn't know somebody got a picture of this.” She whispered. “I had to use some high level techniques to escape the Hokage tower. I just wanted to spend the last few hours with the big oaf.” She smiled. It was a sad smile. One that spoke of memories and pain no one ever wanted to feel. The pain of loss.

 

“What's this?” Naruto grabbed a handful of pictures. The first was of Tsunade as a teenager, sitting at the side of the Konoha swimming hole. Her red two piece barely covered anything as she sat there laughing at something somebody nearby said; thought they weren't in the picture. “wow!” He handed her the picture.

 

She laughed. “Leave it to him to take such a picture” she made the movement to laugh but paused when she felt him stiffen.

 

“Tsunade, is this…” he couldn't finish. His breath caught in his throat. The next picture was that of a beautiful red head smiling at the camera, clad in ninja gear. Her headband was that of whirlpool.

 

“Now that…is your mother”

 

“What was her name?” He whispered.

 

“You know what, I don't remember her first name. Check the back of the photo”

 

He flipped it over. “Kushina Uzumaki” He whispered, “Two weeks before the wedding” He looked up at the Hokage. “What was their wedding like?”

 

She shook her head. “They never got the chance to get married. On her wedding day Orochimaru was found and the groom went with the teams. Hokage's weren't supposed to go, but he was strong. They needed him.”

 

“Didn't they just try again?”

 

“No, they didn't care about getting married. It was mostly for the village.” She laughed. “Everybody wanted a reason to celebrate. Besides, the next day she found out she was pregnant with you. They were already as happy as could be.”

 

He studied the picture for a few minutes as Tsunade sifted through her bag and pulled out her sake cups and a bottle. “Can I have this?” He looked up at Tsunade.

 

“He left it all to you. I should be the one asking”

 

He nodded, starting a pile on the table next to Kakashi's box. The next picture made his eyes bug. A man, looking almost identical to him, just a little skinnier, was smiling HIS signature smile at him. “What the hell?”

 

Tsunade looked over only to start laughing. “yeah, you may have gotten your personality from your mother but you got your looks from her father.”

 

“I can see that” He placed the picture in his `keep' pile. The next few pictures were either of his father or mother or both. It didn't take long before they had sifted through the large pile of photos. They shared the photo's of Jiriaya. The only ones she wanted, besides those of Jiriaya, were of the few photos he kept of hers. Of her family. She left them behind when she left the village. Apparently, the great man that he was, couldn't let the only things left of them be gone forever.

 

“Hey there's something else in here” Naruto looked at the bottom of the box. Reaching down he picked up the folder, just as a knock came from the front door. “COME IN SAKURA” Naruto yelled as he opened the folder.

 

“Hey Naruto, Sensei, how are you two doing” Her smile was that of the fake kind. She still wasn't as good as Sai.

 

Tsunade was sitting back on the couch, one arm hanging off the armrest while the other holding a cup of sake. “We are doing just fine, how was your evening?” She knew that look in her apprentice's eyes. She lost a patient.

 

“I'm doing just fine” Her fake smile widened. “Just a hard night that's all”

 

Tsunade eyed her, Naruto oblivious. “How hard?”

 

Sakura sighed. Her smile refusing to falter. “Hanabi made an appearance”

 

Stunade sat up. “And how was it” Her voice, along with every muscle in her body tightened.

 

“It was her closing act I'm afraid” her smiled turned into a full blow frown; her shoulder sagged.

 

“There wasn't anything you could do” Tsunde whispered, sitting back. “We did everything.

 

“Holy shit” naruto cursed beside Tsunade, standing in shock.

 

“What now?” Tsunade glared.

 

He looked up in udder shock. “You aren't my grandma”

 

She smirked. “I could have told you that” she started to take a drink

 

“You are my cousin”

 

She stared to choke on the sake. “What?” She rasped out.

 

“My great grand father is your grandfathers cousin.” He started to laugh. “His birth certificate is in here. He took his mothers name not his fathers. Apparently your great uncle had an affair.”

 

“I have a great uncle?” She thought for a moment, before laughing herself. Old forgotten memories coming back. “Hiko Senju, that old bastard. Never could keep his hands to himself. I swear he was worse than Jiriaya. The old bastard.”

 

“Man, what is it with creepy old men?” Sakura snapped. This was a perfect distraction.

 

Tsunade continued to laugh. “I don't know. When I knew him he was in his eighties and still had a rock hard body. Every female within a two mile radius wanted him”

 

Naruto shook his head. “The older they get the worse it is”

 

%^&*(*&^%^&*(

 

It was getting easier to escape the village. She knew the surrounding territory like the back of her hand. Though she thought Neji caught her at one point.

 

Running through the forest at full speed she made it to the stream she visited every night. Hinata fell to her knees and held her chest. Her heart feeling like it was ripped from her body. Her blood felt cold.

 

Her sister was dead.

 

Her little sister died.

 

She was gone.

 

Tears fell from her eyes, wetting the ground between her knees. She knew this would happen. She had prepared herself for it over the last two years, but apparently it didn't do any good.

 

She couldn't do this! She was the heiress. Her sister had told not to dwell in it. To be strong for the clan and be the greatest ruler the clan had ever known. The only female ruler the clan ever had.

 

She agreed to it when she asked her, but now it didn't seem reasonable. How could somebody ask another person that?

 

Ripping her clothes from her body she leapt towards the flowing water. Immediately she began her training. Working out the pain and stress as she did so. Everything she had, every emotion she suppressed was put into her movements; completely oblivious to anything around her.

 

$%^&*(*&^%$%^&*(

 

He had to hurry.

 

He leapt from tree to tree. Pushing off as hard as he could. It took forever to get those two crazed woman out of his apartment. He was tired, and grumpy, and was hoping to god that goddess was there again.

 

Naruto needed the confirmation that he wasn't crazy. That he didn't imagine the whole thing.

 

And she was hot. That's a plus.

 

Stopping at the edge of the clearing he hid high in a nearby tree.

 

She was there.

 

The moon, full in the sky, illuminated everything below, including the naked girl standing in the middle of the slow moving stream. She spun one way, the water coming up surrounding her. Her arms spread out, water fallowing their paths. Her eyes closed, but her face kept a pained determined look.

 

She was in pain?

 

He couldn't make out any distinct features, but the pain was flowing from her body. Even the water below started to flow faster, and choppy, as if large rocks suddenly appeared just below the surface.

 

He didn't see any wounds. There was no blood that he could tell.

 

Her jaw clenched as he executed an advanced attack perfectly.

 

He knew this. She lost somebody close to her and was training to rid herself of the pain. Or do what he did and exhaust herself into a coma or she wouldn't get any sleep.

 

He could barely make out the glistening of tears that ran down her cheeks and joined the water below.

 

He wanted to comfort her. He wanted to wrap her in his arms. Surprising enough nothing perverted came to mind. The idea of touching this goddess in a sexual manner seemed almost as if he were violating her, especially since she was in so much pain.

 

It was almost as of the vegetation around her were weeping.

 

She fell to her knees, the soft sound of sobs broke through the silence. He made a move to leap out, hold her to him. It was unconscious he was sure. There was no thinking just acting. He had to protect her. To make her pain disappear.

 

Just as he was going to push off the branch he had been sitting on, a large acorn appeared out of nowhere, hit him square in the head, knocking him off the tree. The sound of a startled gasped echoed through the forest just before he hit the floor. Immediately flipping over he searched the waters for his goddess.

 

She was gone.

 

She must have heard him fall.

 

%^&*()*&^%^&*(

 

Her long pink hair blew in the wind, nearly pulling the long black ribbon from it.

 

This was Hanabi's day. Her funeral. Even though whatever that one ninja did killed her, it was also a blessing. She had always been the kind of girl that stood by her father. Almost had a spoil malevolence presence to her. It seemed that she did everything she could to be the strongest female Hyuuga ever known so that when her sister failed she would get the position as Heiress.

 

After death had been assured, her whole outlook had changed. It didn't make sense to train like she had or to do the other silly tasks made herself do in order to prepare her for her duties, or take her fathers focus from her sister.

 

Her time was now spent outside the walls of the Hyuuga compound. She spent at the schools, assisting the teachers. She was often a test subject during medical classes. She attempted to make treats for different people, but due to her noble status, she never had to learn to cook. That's what the servants were for.

 

She had turned into a charming young lady, that any man would want, but due to her `illness' no one would dare touch.

 

She sat in the back of the two large group of chairs. Beautiful wildflowers decorated the area, a stark contrast to the gloom of the dull black clothing everybody wore.

 

“Hey, Sakura” he familiar voice caught her off guard. She turned her head to peer at the kneeling blond, who stared back with concern.

 

“What's going on? Did somebody…” His voice caught in his throat.

 

She nodded. “Haishi Hyuuga died last night.”

 

His eye widened. “She did? How's Hinata? Is she ok? What about Neji?”

 

“Neji seems to be handling it well and Hinata…well look” She motioned towards the casket.

 

He watched the Hyuuga heir make her way towards the casket with her father. A tear or two fell from his eyes as he placed his hand on the closed door of his daughters final resting place.

 

Hinata, on the other hand, had tears falling from her eyes in waves. She didn't make a sound, maybe a sniffle here and there, but that was the extent of it.

 

“She's suffering” Sakura whispered.

 

He wanted to comfort her, but all he could do was stare.

 

$%^&*(*&^%$%^&UI

 

The funeral was over. Everybody went their own ways, leaving her alone to wander the streets of Konoha alone. There had been a few times when a few people tried to express their sympathies. They were greeted with either a zombie girl who didn't so much as bat an eye when they approached or even a lost stare until they couldn't take it anymore and took off running.

 

She was now the only heir.

 

She was to be under lock down from now on.

 

They didn't say it but she knew it. There was no doubt in her mind that she was being fallowed. She couldn't feel them but she KNEW they were there. It was the duty of the other members of the family to keep her safe. They wouldn't leave her alone, especially after the death of her sister.

 

Her sister.

 

The pain in her chest started to throb even harder now.

 

“Hinata” A soft voice. Who? “Are you ok?”

 

She turned her head to the side, slowly, and shone her sad, lost, eyes on the worried blond. Something didn't seem right. She was no longer moving. That's when she noticed everybody starring at her. She had stopped in the middle of one of the busiest streets of the shopping district, and everybody had stopped to stair.

 

“Come on Hinata” Naruto whispered, placing his hand on her arm, trying to guide her out of the public's view. “Lets get something to eat, my treat, ok?”

 

She just starred. When she felt his arm move from its position on her arm to being wrapped around her back, she went with the movements, as it pushed her along. She had forgotten to blush, or even considered the idea of him holding her in public.

 

As the boy spoke her pain started to subside. “A knew noodle shop just opened up down the street. I wanted to go there, but never got the chance” He smiled down at her.

 

Warmth.

 

“If that ok with you Hinata?”

 

Without even knowing it, a smile formed on her face.

 

“Good, you can have whatever you want. I just…well just not worry about the money ok?” His face brightened.

 

She would have guessed he was hiding something, but she was still too emotional unbalanced for that.

 

By time they reached the restaurant the throbbing had stopped completely. Her mind started to come back. It was as if the longer she spent in the blonds presence the calmer she became.

 

It was a gift he's always had, she knew.

 

“Just two?” The waitress asked. Her hair, a natural red color, was cut short. A pixie cut, if Hinata remembered right. Her uniform was tight. A white button up blouse and a pair of black slacks fit to her perfectly shaped body like an extra skin.

 

“Yeah, and can we get a seat that's quiet please” He watched her smile turn knowing. “No no, not like that. She's just had a hard day, and..”

“its no problem sir. I have just that table” She giggled, showing him to a table on the opposite side of the room from the rest of the guests. “is this to your liking?”

 

“Yes perfect thank you” He pulled out Hinata's seat for her, before seating herself.

 

“Can I get you something to drink?” She pulled out a pad of paper and a pencil.

 

“Green Tea please” Hinata squeaked. She was now smiling at the waitress, a small blush on her cheeks.

 

“Yeah, me too.” Naruto smiled back relieved.

 

“I will be right back with those” She walked away with a smile on her face, mumbling something about `so cute'.

 

“Are you in the mood for anything?” Naruto question, opening the menu. “Wow, they have a lot of things, not just noodles.” He scanned the pages.

 

She opened the book as well. “They have roman” She pointed at the bottom of the last page.

 

“Really?” He searched the menu before finding the rather large selection of Roman. “Wow!”

 

Hinata giggled. The sound seemed to echo.

 

Turning her head she noticed, for the first time, the random older couples watching them. There were four couples and they were smiling. it was as if they were watching some kind of romantic…date…oh god!

 

Every visible part of her body, including the not so visible parts, went up in the deep red of Hinata's blush.