บท 16: Naruto-Kun! Dark Hinata!
A few minutes later, Hinata woke up and when she opened her eyes, she saw the orange-haired boy's face. Seeing this, she understood in what condition she was so she hurriedly stood up.
As for Naruto, he acted as if he was asleep and kept his eyes closed but his focus was on Hinata, who was fuming in embarrassment.
Seeing that the boy didn't wake up, Hinata sighed in relief but she was disappointed too.
The Elder, who was keeping an eye on could see that Naruto was pretending. He understood that the boy didn't want to embarrass Hinata Sama more, so he appeared at her side and said, "Hinata Sama, we should go."
"Ah!" Hinata was startled and shouted as she heard Elder's voice. Seeing that, it was Elder, she sighed and said, "Eh! Elder, wh-what about him?"
"Don't worry! Someone will take him away. You can come here tomorrow to meet and play with him, okay?"
Hinata nodded as she heard the Elder's words. She looked at Naruto, who was sleeping under the Tree, and whispered, "See you Tomorrow."
A smile appeared on Elder's face as he heard her and then the duo left the place. As the Hyuga duo left, Naruto opened his eyes and while looking in Hinata's direction, he said, "Yeah! See Ya Tomorrow."
{Flashback End}
Since then, Naruto and Hinata have started to play together in the evening. Some days, Hinata wouldn't come to play as she had to practice more, for losing against her sister, which she deliberately did as she didn't want The Elders in the Hyuga Clan to pressure.
This was noticed by Naruto and he had advised her to stop letting Hanabi win the matches. In the two months, except for playing, Naruto had been trying to make her come out of her shell. Even though shy Hinata is cute, he still wanted her to talk with him and not fumble all time and get unconscious.
After advising her to display her full abilities, Hinata had thought of giving it a try but she still wasn't able to imagine hurting her sister. For that, Naruto told her one thing, which he didn't know would change her.
"If you don't want to hurt your opponent, then you just have to be strong enough to defeat your opponent without hurting them."
Hearing this, Hinata got an idea and since then, instead of just increasing her strength and practicing her moves, she had decided to focus on her body, especially the speed aspect of her body. She now wanted to be fast enough to defeat Hanabi without her noticing anything.
She had also decided to read books on the human body, nerves, muscles, and Tenketsu.
Though she still loses against her sister every week and then listens to a lecture by her father and elder, she decided to not bother with them and ignore them.
Just like how Naruto ignored the hateful glares everyone gave to him, she also decided to be like him and ignore whatever others said about her.
After all, before she didn't have anyone to depend on or talk to in the clan, so she was afraid of getting ostracised from the clan but after meeting Naruto and playing with him every day, she understood that it doesn't matter what others say, if you had just one person at your back, you don't need to worry about anything.
Coming out of her thought, Hinata looked at the orange-haired boy in front of her and a smile appeared on her face.
"Hinata! What are you dreaming out? Let's go or the area would be taken by other kids."
Hearing her, Hinata laughed and she said, "Naruto-Kun! Even if the area is taken by others, I am sure some birds and cats will scare the kids there and we will have the area, right?"
Getting pointed by Hinata, Naruto couldn't say anything and he just shrugged.
"Anyways! Hinata, you sure have changed. Before, you couldn't even speak a simple sentence but now, you can even send jabs at me."
"Hehe! Isn't it because of you, Naruto-Kun? You showed me that I don't have to care about what others say and follow my feelings. Now I am speaking whatever my heart says."
A smile appeared on Naruto's face as he heard this and said, "Haha! I sure did. But aren't you much happy now? Before, you would just listen to everything that others would say and now you can even answer back. Still, how did it feel when you won against her?"
"Yeah, I am happy now! But meh! It was nothing. I still don't know why they would have such a big ruckus about the match. Hanabi sure was shocked when I defeated her but then I had to console her and ask her to promise me to not tell anyone about this. I still want to defeat her with just speed only." Hinata shrugged. She had a private match with Hanabi and Oh boy, after finally making up her mind, she could easily defeat her.
"Hmm! Since then, your relationship with her has gotten better."
"Yeah! It did. But the elders just had to come between us. They took her away and said that She shouldn't associate with a failure like me. I really hate them. Hanabi-Chan was about to speak about the match but I shook my head and she became silent."
Naruto didn't say anything. As for her hating the elders, well it wasn't a bad thing as Naruto himself has a few village Elders he hates and he can't wait to become Genjutsu Master and then let them experience the Goblin Dungeons from Goblin Slayer.
The duo sat together while enjoying the comfortable silence they had between them.
"Naruto-Kun!"
"Hmm?"
"What is your dream?"
"What kind of dream?"
"What do you want to do in the future?"
"Hmm! I have a lot of things to do in the future. Save a few people in the world. Take care of parasites. Master whatever I can. Learn as much as I can. Marry a few women, and have kids. Traveling around the world and lastly, Enjoying my life with no regrets."
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