Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Mokushita Hyuuga ❯ Chapter 8
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By: Moghedian 
Disclaimer: Naruto and all related characters belong to Kishimoto, not me.
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 10.26.2006 | Updated On: 02.11.2007 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.3K | Visits: 774 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: Naruto and all related characters belong to Kishimoto, not me.
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 10.26.2006 | Updated On: 02.11.2007 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.3K | Visits: 774 | Status: Work In Progress
Chapter 8
A week had passed since Kasumi said that Hinata had abandoned them. All Hinata had done was buy a small apartment room in a quieter part of town. She used almost all of the ryo she had brought.
It was very small, one room, and a closet that turned out to be a bathroom. Hinata guesstimated it to be something like ten or eleven feet wide, and a little longer than that long. The window at the front though, covered nearly the entire front of the room had a spectacular veiw. It also had a small sliding door that led to a balcony.
It was the 7th day after she had bought the apartment when she sat on this balcony, watching a few random shinobi jump in and out of her vision that she realized that she needed a job. Her food was running out, and she didn't want to work with Kasumi. Something about the girl unsettled her.
So that's how Hinata found herself wandering Konoha, only to end up in front of the large Hyuuga manor. Jumping up to a branch in a nearby tree, she sat down and started to think.
She had been thinking for awhile, when someone wearing a white and blue Kimono left the manor entrance. Hinata, broken out of her thoughts, missed the girl's face, but caught the long straight hair in the same colour as her own. Not that it helped identify her, alot of the Hyuuga's had the dark blue hair.
Hinata shimmied from tree to tree, staying far enough away to not be seen, but close enough to not lose her.
The girl seemed to take alot of twists, going back in the general direction of Hinata's small home. Going through a small park, she finally stopped in a clearing that had three weathered logs. Shuffling behind the logs, the girl made her way to the large monument that lay at the edge of the clearing.
The cenograph...Hinata thought. She watched as the girl laid down a white lilly and knelt down, her mouth moving in silent prayer. She touched a name and then stood up. Walking back towards the tree Hinata sat in, she continued past it. Hinata looked at the cenograph when a voice nearly made her fall off the branch she was sitting on.
"Can I ask why you followed me here? In the trees no less?" The girl said. Smirking, Hinata dropped out of the tree and faced the girl. Her face was slim, and her eyes were white. But what made Hinata almost gasp was that her forehead sported no mark. This was Hanabi she was talking to. Glancing at the cenograph, Hinata took a second to make up a story.
"...I'm nervous." She said, finally. Hanabi's face softened. And in a voice that sounded older than her 20 years she said,
"Ah...you must be a newcomer. What is it you are nervous of seeing?" Hinata stared at Hanabi, soaking in 9 years of her sister's growth.
"It's not so much of what I'm afraid of seeing, it's what I'm afraid of not seeing." Hanabi nodded. "A..a friend told me that my husband, had died, but they weren't going to put his name on here. He said something about unusual circumstances. I can't quite remember...I was distressed." Hinata said. Hanabi eyed her without moving.
"I'm sorry for your loss. But I'm afraid I can't stay any longer. I have politics to deal with." Hanabi said and turned.
"A..ano, may I ask who you came and prayed for?" Hinata said, raising her hand. Hanabi stopped and turned, eyeing Hinata with a look that suggested she was trying to look into her soul.
"My Aneue. My dear cousin took liberty in carving her name hisself." she turned and started to walk away, but Hinata decided to get one more question out of her.
"Sumimasen for taking up your time, but one more question? You're eyes define you as a Hyuuga, correct?" Hanabi nodded, "Could you tell me where a Hyuuga Neji lives? He knew my husband and might be able to answer my questions." Hanabi paused, but continued at the pleading in Hinata's voice.
"He lives near the entrance, I cant recall the exact address, but the door to his house is bright blue. Good luck with your information." She bowed slightly, as did Hinata, and then left, leaving Hinata to her own devices.
Walking up the cenograph, she scanned the names near the bottom. Sure enough, in a slightly messier scrawling, as the names were usually put on by the Hokage, were the words, 'Hyuuga Hinata'. What made Hinata gape was that below her name, in the same writing, were the words 'Uzumaki Naruto'.
Neji lied to her. Hinata grimaced. Now that she had his address, she wasn't going to let that one go.
Looking at a clock in a nearby store, she saw that it was almost 5 pm. Heading towards the entrance of Konoha, she scanned around for blue doors. Seeing two, one on ether side of the street, Hinata paused, not sure of which one to pick.
She then remember that she posessed a bloodine limit, and quietly activated her byakugan for a split second, looking in both houses. The left house had an old man and woman drinking tea, and the other one had Neji, also drinking tea. Walking over to Neji's house, she knocked and heard the movement of Neji as he opened the door. Hinata took in his image.
He was wearing a white vest, black leggings, and a blue and yellow robe over it. Hinata's eyes teared up, and before she knew was she was doing, she slapped Neji. She then gasped and apologized.
Neji just stared at her. He then said,
"You have five seconds to explain before I report you." Hinata gaped and glared at him. She held two pointed fingers up to her right eye and said,
"Kai." Her eyes then turned white. Neji gaped and grabbed her arm, pulling her inside. Hinata shook his hand off and took her slippers off. Placing them neatly along the other shoes, she followed Neji to the small table. Kneeling down, she folded her hands. Neji poured her some tea and she nodded a thanks. Taking a sip, Neji just stared at her.
"Your son is upstairs in his room. Are you going to keep showing your eyes off?" Hinata choked on her tea. Putting her cup down, she wiped her lips off, and performed a few seals. Her eyes turned green again with a small pop.
Not a second to soon ether, for it was that moment that her son decided to jump down the stairs yelling.
"Neji-ni-san, Okaerinasai! I didn't hear you come in. Guess what I got on my rep--oh...gomen!" He said, cutting off as he spotted a smiling Hinata.
"Hello, ne-chan, my name is Kouden." She smiled wider and turned to Neji.
"Is Tenten-san home as well?" Neji shook his head and said,
"She wont be home for a while yet. Kouden, Is Aiko-chan home?" Kouden shook his head and slowly made his way to kneel at the table.
"She's at Noneko-chan's house." Neji nodded and said,
"So are you gonna keep it up?" Hinata looked at Kouden and paused a moment.
"Yes. I'm not ready yet." She looked down at her cup of tea, when Neji said,
"You were going to tell us something, Kouden-chan?" Kouden sat up straight, and pulled out a few papers that he was holding. Handing them to Neji, Neji beamed and ruffled Kouden's hair.
"You got 98%! I'm very proud of you." Kouden grinned and Hinata was reminded of Naruto. Kouden looked at Hinata and said,
"Ne-chan, do you want to see? You look like you are intrested in history." Hinata looked at Kouden, then at Neji, who shrugged and handed her the pages. As she read the title, her eyes widened.
Opening the first page she read,
Hyuuga Clan History - By Hyuuga Kouden, Class 3
The Hyuuga clan is a very old clan, surviving from before the beginings of Konohagakure. They have a special kekkai genkai called the 'Byakugan'. These specials eyes can see in nearly all directions, and through solid objects by focusing chakra to them. In addition to x-ray vision, the byakugan can also see the chakra coils of people, and over the years have developed their own special taijutsu style that is argued to be one of the strongest ever. The style called 'jyuuken' trains the user to hit certain points, or tenketsus, that can control the flow of chakra in an individual. They could use it to boost chakra flow, or stop it completely.
The actual family is split into two groups. The main family, and the branch family. It is the duty of the branch family to protect the main family. The branch family is marked by a seal on their foreheads called the 'caged bird seal'. If they were to betray the main family in anyway, a special jutsu was used to activate the seal and ultimately kill the betrayer.
Usually, if the main family produces more than one son, the eldest is marked the heir, and the younger is marked with the branch family seal. This caused a rift to form once, when Hyuuga Hiashi's twin brother was sealed, and later died of that seal for diplomatic purposes.
The Cloud Country had been at war with Konoha for a while, and they agreed to sign a contract for peace. So everyone but one clan attended this celebration. The Hyuugas did not show up because it was their current heiress, Hyuuga Hinata's third birthday. Later that night, it turned out that the Cloud-nin did not want peace, as the leader himself kidnapped the young princess and was stopped and killed by Hyuuga Hiashi.
The rest of the Cloud-nin then tried to start war again by saying that the Hyuugas conspired against them. They said that the cost of peace was the clan leader's body. Not wanting the byakugan in the hands of foreign shinobi, they gave them the body of his younger twin brother, Hyuuga Hizashi.
The death of Hizashi caused his young son, Hyuuga Neji who had been recently sealed himself, to loathe the main house. And only until at the age of 13 in his first Chuunin Exam did he have sense beaten into him by a boy a year younger named Uzumaki Naruto.
Neji then tried and succeeded to make peace with the main house, and vowed to protect them forever after that. But peace was not to last long.
A few years after that, according to Hyuuga Hiashi, he had been sparring with his teenaged daughter, the princess Hinata herself, when Uzumaki Naruto, showed up and in a crazed fury, Hinata killed him. Whether by accident or not has never been determined, as Hiashi stated in the police report,
"She knocked me over, and when I sat up, Uzumaki-san was dead."
Hyuuga Hinata, according to her father, ran away in her grief after she realized what she had done. Hiashi paniked, thinking she would blame him, so he had Naruto's body dumped, and sent his own personal ANBU and nephew to retrieve her. Apparently Hinata struggled and was killed in the attempt to return. Her body, nor Naruto's body were ever found.
Both names can be found on the Shinobi Cenograph though.
By this time, the Hokage had stripped Hiashi of his titles, as Uzumaki was renowned as a hero. The current Clan Leader of the Hyuuga clan is Hiashi's younger daughter, Hyuuga Hanabi, who supported and helped petition the banning of the Caged Bird seal, was met with success when the Hokage more than welcomed the change.
Hinata blinked and swallowed the bile that had rose in her throat, and then looked at Kouden.
"This is very well written. Very well researched. I see that dear Neji-ni-san here let you into the famed Hyuuga Library?" Kouden nodded.
"Nn, ne-chan, how long have you known Neji-ni-san? You seem to know alot about him." Hinata laughed.
"I've known him for a long time. As long as I can remember." Kouden nodded and slumped a bit.
Both Neji and Hinata sipped their tea and watched the young blonde. When he jumped up, Hinata nearly spilled her tea.
"I have to go, I'm meeting Sasami-chan at area 34. I'll see you later, Neji-ni-san, Ne-chan...I never got your name, actually..." Kouden said, his finger raising thoughtfully to his mouth.
"Uh...My name? It's...Kasumi. Yea. Kasumi." She said, nodding. Kouden nodded and quickly left.
Hinata turned to Neji.
"Sasami-chan?" Neji raised an eyebrow.
"Pink hair and everything. Said she knew you." Hinata's eyes widened and she folded her hands.
"So. Back to that slap...You lied to me." Hinata said, narrowing her eyes at Neji. Neji looked flustered.
"Lied? I beg your pardon?" he said.
"You said that that man wouldn't let Naruto's name be put on the cenograph. I saw it there this morning. As well as mine." Neji grinned at the look on Hinata's face.
"I said he didn't allow it. I never said that I listened." Hinata cracked a smile.
"You've changed, Neji-ni-san. Everyone has, that I've met. It's like I don't even belong. I haven't change at all." Neji looked taken aback. He put a hand on her shoulder and said,
"Hinata-sama, if you ever say that you haven't change again, I swear, dead princess or not, I'll kick your ass." he grinned, and Hinata gave a short laugh. "You've changed so much, I didn't even recognize you when we first met again." Hinata's eyes started to tear up when the front door opened.
"Tadaima~~!" Said a female voice. Hinata glanced over at the door and saw a tall woman with dark brown buns on her head and recognized her as Tenten.
"Okaerinasai, Tenten. This," Neji said poking Hinata, "is my friend Kasumi, who graciously accepted my offer of tea." Tenten looked at Hinata and scoped her up and down. Shrugging she smiled and after she took her sandals off, she stretched her hand out. Hinata took it and shook it softly.
"Hajimemashite, I'm Hyuuga Tenten, as my dear husband has probably told you." Hinata bobbed her head and stood up as Tenten sat down.
"Nice to meet you, Tenten-san, but I really must be going. I have other errands to attend to." Hinata gave a formal bow and said,
"It was a pleasure seeing you again, Neji-kun. I expect I'll be back soon." Neji inclined his head in agreement and watched Hinata as she put her slippers on and left quietly. Tenten turned to Neji and said,
"Friend? I've never seen her before." her eye brow was rasied, and her hand unconsiously stroked a kunai hanging from her belt. Neji gulped.
"I met her in the...Tea Country. On that mission with Lee and Ino-san, way back when we were genin still." Tenten looked skeptical, but kept her mouth shut.
Kasumi of the Tea Country...eh?
Hinata arrived back at her home a few hours later. She was tired from the emotional ups and downs, but generally happy. She got to see her son, her love's name was put to rest, and she scored a partime job at a barbeque restaurant on the other side of Konoha, near the Hokage tower.
Falling back onto her pallet, Hinata was asleep before she hit the pillow. She dreamt of Naruto and Kouden as a family. Even in her dreams, she marveled at how much her son looked like his father. Except his nose. Kouden definitly had Hinata's nose. Of course her eyes, but she couldn't recall any Hyuuga child not having the signature pale eyes.
Besides that, Hinata had a feeling of peace. One that she hoped would last a while longer.
A long while longer.
A man in a long black cloak with white trim suddenly appeared at the mouth of a dark cave. The other person, a woman with flaming red hair and pale green eyes, wearing an identical cloak, save the trim decorating hers was green, flinched. She mumbled to herself. She hated it when he did that poofing thing around her. The man spoke first.
"Where are the others?" his voice was deep and the red haired woman always thought it was rather handsome, but her companion needed to work on his personality a bit. With narrowed green eyes, she said,
"Inside. You're late." She thought she heard a sigh come from his drawn hood as she descending into the cave.
Reaching the back, she took her respective place on a rock inscribed with the symbol of Konoha Shinobi on the top. A rough line had been crossed through it, indicating that the red head was an outlaw shinobi of Konoha.
Her companion sat down on a crossed out symbol for the cloud. He pushed his hood back to reveal tan coloured hair and matching eyes. His eyes were focused on the front where one person stood. This person had his, or her, as the red head was never sure, hood drawn, hiding it's face.
The other 3 figures on the other three seats were focused on the leader as well. The leader dropped a small stone, and everyone's attention was caught as the clacking noise bounced off of all of the walls.
"Now that we are all gathered here," the leader said, it's voice neither feminine, nor masculine, "We will disscuss what our latest target is." He paused, looking at the man with tan coloured hair, "I trust you located your target?" The tan haired man nodded curtly. The leader turned his gaze upon the red head. She saw a flash of red in it's hood and nearly shuddered.
"And you?" it said to her. She nodded and it turned to the back of the cave, facing away from the group.
For the next hour she watched and listened to this person she near worshipped, come up with a plan that not only implied the trust it had in them, but the power it would bring them, nearly made her cry.
These next few years were going to be intresting ones.
End Chapter 8
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A/N : Sorry for the short and late chapter, I got caught up with school work, and shopping for halloween XD
A week had passed since Kasumi said that Hinata had abandoned them. All Hinata had done was buy a small apartment room in a quieter part of town. She used almost all of the ryo she had brought.
It was very small, one room, and a closet that turned out to be a bathroom. Hinata guesstimated it to be something like ten or eleven feet wide, and a little longer than that long. The window at the front though, covered nearly the entire front of the room had a spectacular veiw. It also had a small sliding door that led to a balcony.
It was the 7th day after she had bought the apartment when she sat on this balcony, watching a few random shinobi jump in and out of her vision that she realized that she needed a job. Her food was running out, and she didn't want to work with Kasumi. Something about the girl unsettled her.
So that's how Hinata found herself wandering Konoha, only to end up in front of the large Hyuuga manor. Jumping up to a branch in a nearby tree, she sat down and started to think.
She had been thinking for awhile, when someone wearing a white and blue Kimono left the manor entrance. Hinata, broken out of her thoughts, missed the girl's face, but caught the long straight hair in the same colour as her own. Not that it helped identify her, alot of the Hyuuga's had the dark blue hair.
Hinata shimmied from tree to tree, staying far enough away to not be seen, but close enough to not lose her.
The girl seemed to take alot of twists, going back in the general direction of Hinata's small home. Going through a small park, she finally stopped in a clearing that had three weathered logs. Shuffling behind the logs, the girl made her way to the large monument that lay at the edge of the clearing.
The cenograph...Hinata thought. She watched as the girl laid down a white lilly and knelt down, her mouth moving in silent prayer. She touched a name and then stood up. Walking back towards the tree Hinata sat in, she continued past it. Hinata looked at the cenograph when a voice nearly made her fall off the branch she was sitting on.
"Can I ask why you followed me here? In the trees no less?" The girl said. Smirking, Hinata dropped out of the tree and faced the girl. Her face was slim, and her eyes were white. But what made Hinata almost gasp was that her forehead sported no mark. This was Hanabi she was talking to. Glancing at the cenograph, Hinata took a second to make up a story.
"...I'm nervous." She said, finally. Hanabi's face softened. And in a voice that sounded older than her 20 years she said,
"Ah...you must be a newcomer. What is it you are nervous of seeing?" Hinata stared at Hanabi, soaking in 9 years of her sister's growth.
"It's not so much of what I'm afraid of seeing, it's what I'm afraid of not seeing." Hanabi nodded. "A..a friend told me that my husband, had died, but they weren't going to put his name on here. He said something about unusual circumstances. I can't quite remember...I was distressed." Hinata said. Hanabi eyed her without moving.
"I'm sorry for your loss. But I'm afraid I can't stay any longer. I have politics to deal with." Hanabi said and turned.
"A..ano, may I ask who you came and prayed for?" Hinata said, raising her hand. Hanabi stopped and turned, eyeing Hinata with a look that suggested she was trying to look into her soul.
"My Aneue. My dear cousin took liberty in carving her name hisself." she turned and started to walk away, but Hinata decided to get one more question out of her.
"Sumimasen for taking up your time, but one more question? You're eyes define you as a Hyuuga, correct?" Hanabi nodded, "Could you tell me where a Hyuuga Neji lives? He knew my husband and might be able to answer my questions." Hanabi paused, but continued at the pleading in Hinata's voice.
"He lives near the entrance, I cant recall the exact address, but the door to his house is bright blue. Good luck with your information." She bowed slightly, as did Hinata, and then left, leaving Hinata to her own devices.
Walking up the cenograph, she scanned the names near the bottom. Sure enough, in a slightly messier scrawling, as the names were usually put on by the Hokage, were the words, 'Hyuuga Hinata'. What made Hinata gape was that below her name, in the same writing, were the words 'Uzumaki Naruto'.
Neji lied to her. Hinata grimaced. Now that she had his address, she wasn't going to let that one go.
Looking at a clock in a nearby store, she saw that it was almost 5 pm. Heading towards the entrance of Konoha, she scanned around for blue doors. Seeing two, one on ether side of the street, Hinata paused, not sure of which one to pick.
She then remember that she posessed a bloodine limit, and quietly activated her byakugan for a split second, looking in both houses. The left house had an old man and woman drinking tea, and the other one had Neji, also drinking tea. Walking over to Neji's house, she knocked and heard the movement of Neji as he opened the door. Hinata took in his image.
He was wearing a white vest, black leggings, and a blue and yellow robe over it. Hinata's eyes teared up, and before she knew was she was doing, she slapped Neji. She then gasped and apologized.
Neji just stared at her. He then said,
"You have five seconds to explain before I report you." Hinata gaped and glared at him. She held two pointed fingers up to her right eye and said,
"Kai." Her eyes then turned white. Neji gaped and grabbed her arm, pulling her inside. Hinata shook his hand off and took her slippers off. Placing them neatly along the other shoes, she followed Neji to the small table. Kneeling down, she folded her hands. Neji poured her some tea and she nodded a thanks. Taking a sip, Neji just stared at her.
"Your son is upstairs in his room. Are you going to keep showing your eyes off?" Hinata choked on her tea. Putting her cup down, she wiped her lips off, and performed a few seals. Her eyes turned green again with a small pop.
Not a second to soon ether, for it was that moment that her son decided to jump down the stairs yelling.
"Neji-ni-san, Okaerinasai! I didn't hear you come in. Guess what I got on my rep--oh...gomen!" He said, cutting off as he spotted a smiling Hinata.
"Hello, ne-chan, my name is Kouden." She smiled wider and turned to Neji.
"Is Tenten-san home as well?" Neji shook his head and said,
"She wont be home for a while yet. Kouden, Is Aiko-chan home?" Kouden shook his head and slowly made his way to kneel at the table.
"She's at Noneko-chan's house." Neji nodded and said,
"So are you gonna keep it up?" Hinata looked at Kouden and paused a moment.
"Yes. I'm not ready yet." She looked down at her cup of tea, when Neji said,
"You were going to tell us something, Kouden-chan?" Kouden sat up straight, and pulled out a few papers that he was holding. Handing them to Neji, Neji beamed and ruffled Kouden's hair.
"You got 98%! I'm very proud of you." Kouden grinned and Hinata was reminded of Naruto. Kouden looked at Hinata and said,
"Ne-chan, do you want to see? You look like you are intrested in history." Hinata looked at Kouden, then at Neji, who shrugged and handed her the pages. As she read the title, her eyes widened.
Opening the first page she read,
Hyuuga Clan History - By Hyuuga Kouden, Class 3
The Hyuuga clan is a very old clan, surviving from before the beginings of Konohagakure. They have a special kekkai genkai called the 'Byakugan'. These specials eyes can see in nearly all directions, and through solid objects by focusing chakra to them. In addition to x-ray vision, the byakugan can also see the chakra coils of people, and over the years have developed their own special taijutsu style that is argued to be one of the strongest ever. The style called 'jyuuken' trains the user to hit certain points, or tenketsus, that can control the flow of chakra in an individual. They could use it to boost chakra flow, or stop it completely.
The actual family is split into two groups. The main family, and the branch family. It is the duty of the branch family to protect the main family. The branch family is marked by a seal on their foreheads called the 'caged bird seal'. If they were to betray the main family in anyway, a special jutsu was used to activate the seal and ultimately kill the betrayer.
Usually, if the main family produces more than one son, the eldest is marked the heir, and the younger is marked with the branch family seal. This caused a rift to form once, when Hyuuga Hiashi's twin brother was sealed, and later died of that seal for diplomatic purposes.
The Cloud Country had been at war with Konoha for a while, and they agreed to sign a contract for peace. So everyone but one clan attended this celebration. The Hyuugas did not show up because it was their current heiress, Hyuuga Hinata's third birthday. Later that night, it turned out that the Cloud-nin did not want peace, as the leader himself kidnapped the young princess and was stopped and killed by Hyuuga Hiashi.
The rest of the Cloud-nin then tried to start war again by saying that the Hyuugas conspired against them. They said that the cost of peace was the clan leader's body. Not wanting the byakugan in the hands of foreign shinobi, they gave them the body of his younger twin brother, Hyuuga Hizashi.
The death of Hizashi caused his young son, Hyuuga Neji who had been recently sealed himself, to loathe the main house. And only until at the age of 13 in his first Chuunin Exam did he have sense beaten into him by a boy a year younger named Uzumaki Naruto.
Neji then tried and succeeded to make peace with the main house, and vowed to protect them forever after that. But peace was not to last long.
A few years after that, according to Hyuuga Hiashi, he had been sparring with his teenaged daughter, the princess Hinata herself, when Uzumaki Naruto, showed up and in a crazed fury, Hinata killed him. Whether by accident or not has never been determined, as Hiashi stated in the police report,
"She knocked me over, and when I sat up, Uzumaki-san was dead."
Hyuuga Hinata, according to her father, ran away in her grief after she realized what she had done. Hiashi paniked, thinking she would blame him, so he had Naruto's body dumped, and sent his own personal ANBU and nephew to retrieve her. Apparently Hinata struggled and was killed in the attempt to return. Her body, nor Naruto's body were ever found.
Both names can be found on the Shinobi Cenograph though.
By this time, the Hokage had stripped Hiashi of his titles, as Uzumaki was renowned as a hero. The current Clan Leader of the Hyuuga clan is Hiashi's younger daughter, Hyuuga Hanabi, who supported and helped petition the banning of the Caged Bird seal, was met with success when the Hokage more than welcomed the change.
Hinata blinked and swallowed the bile that had rose in her throat, and then looked at Kouden.
"This is very well written. Very well researched. I see that dear Neji-ni-san here let you into the famed Hyuuga Library?" Kouden nodded.
"Nn, ne-chan, how long have you known Neji-ni-san? You seem to know alot about him." Hinata laughed.
"I've known him for a long time. As long as I can remember." Kouden nodded and slumped a bit.
Both Neji and Hinata sipped their tea and watched the young blonde. When he jumped up, Hinata nearly spilled her tea.
"I have to go, I'm meeting Sasami-chan at area 34. I'll see you later, Neji-ni-san, Ne-chan...I never got your name, actually..." Kouden said, his finger raising thoughtfully to his mouth.
"Uh...My name? It's...Kasumi. Yea. Kasumi." She said, nodding. Kouden nodded and quickly left.
Hinata turned to Neji.
"Sasami-chan?" Neji raised an eyebrow.
"Pink hair and everything. Said she knew you." Hinata's eyes widened and she folded her hands.
"So. Back to that slap...You lied to me." Hinata said, narrowing her eyes at Neji. Neji looked flustered.
"Lied? I beg your pardon?" he said.
"You said that that man wouldn't let Naruto's name be put on the cenograph. I saw it there this morning. As well as mine." Neji grinned at the look on Hinata's face.
"I said he didn't allow it. I never said that I listened." Hinata cracked a smile.
"You've changed, Neji-ni-san. Everyone has, that I've met. It's like I don't even belong. I haven't change at all." Neji looked taken aback. He put a hand on her shoulder and said,
"Hinata-sama, if you ever say that you haven't change again, I swear, dead princess or not, I'll kick your ass." he grinned, and Hinata gave a short laugh. "You've changed so much, I didn't even recognize you when we first met again." Hinata's eyes started to tear up when the front door opened.
"Tadaima~~!" Said a female voice. Hinata glanced over at the door and saw a tall woman with dark brown buns on her head and recognized her as Tenten.
"Okaerinasai, Tenten. This," Neji said poking Hinata, "is my friend Kasumi, who graciously accepted my offer of tea." Tenten looked at Hinata and scoped her up and down. Shrugging she smiled and after she took her sandals off, she stretched her hand out. Hinata took it and shook it softly.
"Hajimemashite, I'm Hyuuga Tenten, as my dear husband has probably told you." Hinata bobbed her head and stood up as Tenten sat down.
"Nice to meet you, Tenten-san, but I really must be going. I have other errands to attend to." Hinata gave a formal bow and said,
"It was a pleasure seeing you again, Neji-kun. I expect I'll be back soon." Neji inclined his head in agreement and watched Hinata as she put her slippers on and left quietly. Tenten turned to Neji and said,
"Friend? I've never seen her before." her eye brow was rasied, and her hand unconsiously stroked a kunai hanging from her belt. Neji gulped.
"I met her in the...Tea Country. On that mission with Lee and Ino-san, way back when we were genin still." Tenten looked skeptical, but kept her mouth shut.
Kasumi of the Tea Country...eh?
Hinata arrived back at her home a few hours later. She was tired from the emotional ups and downs, but generally happy. She got to see her son, her love's name was put to rest, and she scored a partime job at a barbeque restaurant on the other side of Konoha, near the Hokage tower.
Falling back onto her pallet, Hinata was asleep before she hit the pillow. She dreamt of Naruto and Kouden as a family. Even in her dreams, she marveled at how much her son looked like his father. Except his nose. Kouden definitly had Hinata's nose. Of course her eyes, but she couldn't recall any Hyuuga child not having the signature pale eyes.
Besides that, Hinata had a feeling of peace. One that she hoped would last a while longer.
A long while longer.
A man in a long black cloak with white trim suddenly appeared at the mouth of a dark cave. The other person, a woman with flaming red hair and pale green eyes, wearing an identical cloak, save the trim decorating hers was green, flinched. She mumbled to herself. She hated it when he did that poofing thing around her. The man spoke first.
"Where are the others?" his voice was deep and the red haired woman always thought it was rather handsome, but her companion needed to work on his personality a bit. With narrowed green eyes, she said,
"Inside. You're late." She thought she heard a sigh come from his drawn hood as she descending into the cave.
Reaching the back, she took her respective place on a rock inscribed with the symbol of Konoha Shinobi on the top. A rough line had been crossed through it, indicating that the red head was an outlaw shinobi of Konoha.
Her companion sat down on a crossed out symbol for the cloud. He pushed his hood back to reveal tan coloured hair and matching eyes. His eyes were focused on the front where one person stood. This person had his, or her, as the red head was never sure, hood drawn, hiding it's face.
The other 3 figures on the other three seats were focused on the leader as well. The leader dropped a small stone, and everyone's attention was caught as the clacking noise bounced off of all of the walls.
"Now that we are all gathered here," the leader said, it's voice neither feminine, nor masculine, "We will disscuss what our latest target is." He paused, looking at the man with tan coloured hair, "I trust you located your target?" The tan haired man nodded curtly. The leader turned his gaze upon the red head. She saw a flash of red in it's hood and nearly shuddered.
"And you?" it said to her. She nodded and it turned to the back of the cave, facing away from the group.
For the next hour she watched and listened to this person she near worshipped, come up with a plan that not only implied the trust it had in them, but the power it would bring them, nearly made her cry.
These next few years were going to be intresting ones.
End Chapter 8
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A/N : Sorry for the short and late chapter, I got caught up with school work, and shopping for halloween XD