Chapter 7: Friends and Dates
Naruto hurried to his team’s morning training. He made it just in time before the team looked at him with creepy smiling faces.
“What?” he asked before Sai and Sasuke got hold of his arms.
“You shouldn’t be here,” said Sasuke
“You have to get ready for your date,” said Sai
“But that’s hours away!” shouted Naruto “And how did you know!” he was silenced by Sai’s smile.
“That’s what we mean” said Sasuke “we need a lot of work to do on you”
Sakura watched quite worriedly. She wondered if those two knew more or less the same as Naruto about dating. She sighed seeing that there would be no training. Well she might as well contribute to the cause, a little more. Therefore, she went to find Ino and pay Hinata a visit.
Naruto cringed at the all black punk-emo clothing. Really, he had planned to use the outfit for the costume party. With a lot of gel and a strong brush, they shaped his hair Sasuke style. He completely hated it.
“Why you want to help me with this anyways?” said Naruto as the other two looked for better shoes.
“Because if you are distracted on training there is no point at all on training” said Sasuke before throwing him some regular black sandals.
“I think is going to be fun,” said Sai “when she laughs at your dick” Sai got down evading a shoe to the head.
“You bastards better be serious,” Naruto, said under his breath both of his companions heard him.
“So you are serious?” asked Sasuke close to him
“What...well you know Hinata, I don’t want to scare her and make her faint or something like that,” he said with a light blush on his face.
“We are doing those so you don’t disappoint her,” said Sai before Naruto visualized an angry and disappointed Hinata.
“You really think she will like this more,” he said looking at his sleeve filled with jewelry and chains.
“Of course, women love shiny things,” said Sasuke, the Uchiha who had never been in a date.
Kumi sneezed before looking around her new lab/study/room. She grinned seeing her place finally put to in order. Moreover, it was all thanks to Kakashi and his dirty book. She had made him come to get some extra pages of his book and help her put it together just as it was now.
‘Maybe coming to Konoha wasn’t so bad’ she thought looking over her notes ‘I was always moving all my stuff when we moved and sometimes it was too hard to find what I was needing. Here I have everything in its place’ she thought looking over her tests tubes and favorite books. She still had a few boxes to organize but it wasn’t big deal to her ‘its so much easier to keep it like this’ she thought looking through her window ‘still…’ she looked at the letters at her desk ‘I wish you were here cousin, maybe if we had come back sooner I could have saved you’
She sighed before sitting on her desk chair and writing her formulas and theories. This was her life, the one that developed new jutsus for her clan. She knew them all better than anyone else did. She kept some secret only between her and her sister since she was the head of the clan and some with Mina and Maiya. She was proud of her clan. However, there was something bothering her now. Strong feelings had been running around and she was picking them up. Sometimes she cursed their gift. It made it so hard to get along with people when you knew they were lying about how they felt even if they did not know they were feeling that way. How she wished she could see her own feelings on the mirror.
Hiashi and Hinata stopped their morning training when they heard giggling. Hinata smiled nervously when she saw them carrying bags with clothes and others things that jingled. They stopped in silence when they saw Hiashi’s cold look.
“Good morning” they said in unison and with a bow.
“Do you need Hinata for something?”
“Kind of” said Sakura playing with a few strands of her hair.
“Will it take long?” asked Hiashi
“Kind of” said Sakura before being pushed by Ino who sniffed Hinata
“Actually most of the day” said Ino
Sakura elbowed her friend. Hiashi sighed knowing it would be no way to evade them.
“Take your time” he saw his daughter smile brightly, it had been a long time since he didn’t’ see her smile like that. With all the tension of the clan and all the extra training, well, it was nice to see her smile though being able to sense she was going to be given some kind of makeover made him feel kind of old. As he walked away, he decided to go pick Hanabi from the Academy. That might make him feel not so old.
“Let’s go,” said Ino hooking Hinata’s arm
“Get you ready” said Sakura holding the other arm
“For what?” asked Hinata still at lost.
“Your date with Naruto, of course” said Ino before Hinata turned different shades of red.
“So all that?” asked Hinata
“Our tools” said Ino showing her a wax jar
“Eh!”
“But I can barely stand it!” Said Naruto covering his nose “can’t I wash?”
“Nope” said Sai throwing the cologne bottle into trash.
“If we only had Neji here,” said Sasuke wondering if he would be back in time from his mission to help them.
“Then he would tear Naruto’s head off” said Sai with a smile still on his face
“You are right,” said Sasuke, Naruto tensed
‘I didn’t think of that’ he imagined Neji’s creepy face before he beat him up for taking Hinata out
“Should we die his hair black instead?” said Sasuke as he looked at Naruto
“It would crash with his eyes,” said Sai as he attached more things to Naruto
“What!” Naruto screamed before both of them punched him in the face and knocked him out
“That’s better,” said Sasuke
“He looks better sleeping,” said Sai
“No, he just looks more stupid”
“Ahhh!” screamed Hinata Hyuuga looking at her highly make up covered face. She knew she looked worst than a whore and for that she fainted
Sakura and Ino who had been holding their laughing back let it go. Sakura held to the bed before saying “Ino told you it was too much, she almost looks like a clown or something a lot worst”
“What! We were practicing” said Ino before looking at Hinata and then giggled, Sakura could not help herself and giggled too until they both broke laughter again.
“What happened?” asked Hinata gaining conscience. She looked at herself in the mirror again
“Oh nothing!” said Sakura handing her a make up remover tissue (-or something like that-) and acting as if it was nothing.
Hiashi Hyuuga stopped in mid track. Hanabi looked at her father with curiosity. He heard two mothers talking a little ahead of them. He was not one to listen to others’ conversation but he had heard his daughter’s name
“Yes, that’s what I heard at the flower shop”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, that kid Naruto and Hinata Hyuuga are going out”
“For how long has this been going?”
“I don’t know, maybe since he returned”
“Poor girl, I knew that boy was more than trouble”
“Fa…” and before Hanabi could finish he had taken off toward where he knew Naruto lived.
Hanabi looked at the trail of dust before hurrying home. She wanted to ask Hinata about what she heard.
Kakashi was bored! More than bored, he was dying of boredom! He was sitting in Kumi’s bed and she at her desk typing at her computer the results of some experiments the Hokage had asked her to analyze. She yawned
‘At least she isn’t enjoying this too’ he thought still bored
“Kakashi, could you pass me that book?” she said as she continued to type
Kakashi passed the book in red leather
“Thank you, you can leave if you want” she smiled at him “thank you for all your help, I really appreciate it” he had helped her with some of the boxes but she had some now work to do.
Kakashi had tried to give a smart response about him been forced into because he wanted his book back but could not. He had nothing better to do so he sat on the floor and continued to read the few pages she gave her. He heard her yawn and stretch. He found she was a hard worker. She took care of all the business of the clan and created those jutsus that wasn’t easy at all at top of that she filled almost everything from the Hokage’s office into her computer. An idea jumped into his mind but kicked it out as soon as it had entered. She would never do something like that for him.
Kumi suddenly stopped. She could detect bitterness and turned around to see Kakashi wrapped in coils of a sick yellow color. She narrowed her eyes. Such feelings made her sick, it was as if they wrapped around her heart and squished it. Kakashi noticed she was looking at him. Bitterness was replaced by curiosity that was a light shade of blue. She sighed before leaning forwards
“Kakashi, do you know what our kekkei genkai is?” she asked and knew the answer before he could even answer, “I can see your heart and everyone else’s but mine”
“…” Kakashi was silent wanting to hear more
“You know the Hyuuga can see through things, right? Well we do not see through, we see part of what is truly inside you. If you are angry with me, I will see it around you as shaped light even if you try to hide it. Alternatively, if you are feeling bitter toward me I will also see it. Sometimes we can pick up the frequencies from very far away and most of all when the feelings are related to us or toward us”
“You mean” has she known how he felt the entire time he was with her
“Please leave; you are disrupting my work, most of all the bitterness and anger. Take this” she gave him more pages of his book
“You are kicking me out?” he asked not believing the nerve of her
“Stop that!” she stood up and pushed him towards the door “I told you stop, just go, I don’t like seeing those feelings. I detest them” she was serious “don’t make me change them for you”
“You can?” he was again been curious; he stood just outside of her door.
“Yes” she lifted her pinky finger of her right arm and he saw a metal claw ring “I can shape your feelings however I want but I only do it to the enemies I am going to kill so please”
“Are you the only one that can do that?” he asked
“Yes” she said “but I can do it for a long time term, it’s a jutsu I don’t trust anyone”
“But me?” he asked
“I guess,” she said seeing his feelings soften
“I want to ask you something,” he said
“What is it?” she asked
“You hate your kekkei genkai?”
“I thought that was already clear,” she said starting to close the door
“I guess it wasn’t,” he said from behind the screen
She laughed before collapsing on her chair too tired to find a good response but could not find any.
Naruto groaned as they tried to make him sound like Sasuke, which was not working too well since every time he tried the sexy smile it came too creepy. Both Sai and Sasuke were losing hope. They stopped what they were doing when they heard something weird outside. It sounded like a strong wind approaching and …
“Uzumaki!” Hiashi Hyuuga barged in!
“Wa, waa!” Naruto hid behind the couch from the angry and scary looking Hyuuga
“What do you want?” said Sasuke not to friendly
“Talk” said Hiashi and then Naruto came out hoping he would keep his word.
“About?” he asked as his knees shook.
“Your date with Hinata” said Sai “dummy”
Sasuke and Sai refused to leave. They were there because they wanted to help their teammate since if he went around all sad and depressed to their missions they knew they could end up dead. They stood by the kitchen while Hyuuga talked to Naruto who nodded at everything he said. Strange thing he was starting to lose his nervousness.
“You won’t do anything I would have to cut your hands for” he said clearly
“I would never do something like that to her! I know I have been trained by perverts but not into being one” said Naruto in his defense “Besides Hinata is one of the few people I do like” he gave glare at Sai who smiled and waved back.
“Then I will take your word for it” the he leaned close with a creepy face “if you are lying to me I will find you and make you suffer so much that the villagers will feel sorry for you and make you Hokage” then he left before Naruto collapsed on his floor and sighed
“What have gotten myself into” then in his mind he saw Hinata smiling ‘can’t break that smile’ he thought feeling better.
Hinata waved at them as they left before running into her room and looking for what to wear. She looked at her face. she had used something light but she still had to bathe and redo that make up and dress and do her hair which they didn’t even went into. She started to get nervous. She had heard how sometimes girls made guys wait and she had never thought of it right. She decided to rush into the restroom to wash.
When she came out there was clothes laid out for her on bed.
“Better get ready soon” said Hanabi coming in with a hair dryer.
Hinata smiled before getting dress. Hanabi helped her dry and brush her hair. Hinata applied the make up lightly. When they were done, they even had some extra time. Hinata saw her sister looking through the make up.
“Come here” said Hinata before placing some on her.
“Hinata, we need to talk,” said her father knocking. Hanabi smiled before opening the door. Hiashi gave a step back looking at his eleven-year-old wearing make up.
“Excuse Me,” she said walking away before running with a smile on her face.
“Hi...Hinata, are you going with that Naruto Uzumaki?” he asked.
“Hai” she said looking to the side before giving a decisive look “I am sorry I didn’t tell you before, I was going to after training but then Sakura and Ino...” she knew she had just been scared to tell him.
“Please be careful,” he said closing the door “it does not matter what the rest of the clan thinks; just don’t really give them something to think about. I know Uzumaki Naruto has given you inspiration and he has done things for the village but remember he is still almost a man and that no matter what you might think of him you might not know him as much as you think you do” Hinata had sat on the bed and looked at him as he spoke. He approved but also wanted her safe.
“I understand father,” she said standing before giving him a hug “and thanks for understanding too”
Hiashi patted her head, she was still his little girl who was insecure, but he would be there for her as long as she needed him.
“You should get going,” he said as she let go.
“Hai” she said with a smile before running out.
Hiashi sighed ‘now time to talk to Hanabi’ he thought before going to look for her.
