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happyocelot · 3 years ago

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Appreciating His Company

For Day 28: Vacation. I love the thought of Naruto somehow charming the Hyuuga. :)

Hinata scowled, taking in the mess that was Hanabi's closet. Stained, battered mission gear thrown carelessly against formal dress, blood-soaked socks strewn across her underwear. Nothing was properly folded. Everything was in piles. A camo backpack lay on the closet floor. It looked like it had been mauled by a very large, very angry animal.

Hinata's eye twitched as a lumpy misshapen flak jacket fell from the coat hanger onto the sock-underwear pile.

How dare she.

What was more, their father would be coming in to check up soon.

They were all going on a damn vacation outside the village for the first time in ages and Hinata had to deal with this.

"Nee-samaaaa," her little sister yelled. "Where are you? I've been looking all over for you and you know how tou-sama gets when..."

Hanabi flounced into her room, laughing impishly as usual. Then she saw Hinata and stopped dead in her tracks, eyes widening in horror.

"I-it's not what it looks like!" she stammered.

Hinata crossed her arms across her chest.

Explain, she said with a twitch of her eyebrows.

"It was your boyfriend!" The words tumbled from Hanabi's mouth in a rush, and Hinata blinked, confused. She didn't have a boyfriend.

"Listen, I'm the Hyuuga heiress, nee-sama! You can't seriously expect me of all people to be messy, right? It was your boyfriend, the one who's obsessed with ramen!"

Hinata's face heated to the temperature of boiling broth. "H-he's not my boyfriend!"

"Your future boyfriend then, whatever!" Hanabi held up her hands placatingly, though she had caught Hinata so off-kilter that there was no need. "He said that he borrowed his teammate's backpack and supplies for a mission, but that there was some kind of fight with some missing-nin and a giant raccoon – "

"What?"

"I don't know, I didn't make up this story! Anyway, he got into a fight and his teammate's backpack got hit," Hanabi barrelled on, "and as soon as he got back to the village, he grabbed the first person he saw..."

Of course this person had to be Hanabi. Because Hinata's life could never be simple and uncomplicated.

"...and he begged me to help him out. He said his teammate gets scary when she's mad and that she would be really mad if she saw what happened to her supplies and backpack. And then he dumped everything into my closet." Hanabi took a deep breath, her rambling exculpatory monologue complete. "So if you wanna blame anyone, blame him. And anyway, tou-sama is speaking to him right now."

"What?"

Hanabi sighed. "Do I have to say everything twice, nee-sama? He's terrified of provoking his teammate's wrath, so he's planning to beg tou-sama to let him come on our vacation so that he can shake her off and replace her stuff so that she won't get mad."

What the –

***

Of course.

Of course this had to happen to Hinata. Her life could never be simple and uncomplicated. Only the most ridiculous scenarios could ever happen to her.

"EXTREMELY AWESOME HYUUGA-SAMA!"

Naruto was bowing to her father in a dogeza.

Unfortunately, she was standing behind her father and could not see his expression.

Hinata winced.

"Please help me! I was on an A-rank mission, ya see, and Octopops...I mean, um, the Hachibi jinchuuriki and I, we went to a diplomatic-summit-whatever that baa-chan and the Raikage sent us on..."

Hanabi was enjoying this thoroughly, if the evil smile on her face was any indication.

Why was this happening to her.

"And we ran into this enka ninja, Sabu-chan-shishou! He taught Octopops how to put passion into his enka. Like..." Still not getting up from his bow, Naruto began warbling what Hinata could only assume was passionate enka. "Shinobiii~by being stealthyyyy~we increase our life expectancyyyy~"

"That is not a natural sentence construction," Hanabi said sagely.

Hinata agreed.

She still had no idea what her father thought of this. She suspected that it wouldn't be pleasant.

"But Octopops, he wasn't stealthy at all!" Naruto was yelling. "His awful singing caught the attention of these Kiri missing-nin, and they tried to...to shorten our life expectancy. But Sabu-chan-shishou's giant raccoon Ponta scared them off! And I was carrying my teammate Sakura-chan's stuff with me, and it all got ruined in the commotion."

"Tsunade-sama's apprentice?" her father broke in.

Hinata blinked. He did not sound remotely angry, disgusted, or otherwise any negative emotion. Hanabi didn't look remotely surprised at this astonishing fact.

She was so confused.

"You got it!" Naruto looked up from his bow to grin and shoot her dad a thumbs-up.

Why was this happening to her.

"And she's scary when she's mad, ya know? So...uh...I'd really appreciate it if you'd let me tag along on your vacation thing, so that I can stock up on supplies for her. Some of her medicinal salve isn't from Konoha at all."

Hinata waited with bated breath. So far, her father hadn't made any sudden threatening movements, but he was a stuffy, uptight Hyuuga, and he was talking to Naruto.

Naruto.

Surely her father would snort disdainfully and call someone to "escort" him out of the compound –

"Very well."

"What?"

This was weird.

Her father shot her a funny look. "Naruto...you do not need to stay in a dogeza that long. You're the hero of the war, it hurts to look at."

Naruto sprang to his feet as though springs were attached to them. "Right-o! Thanks a lot, Hinata's dad!"

He'd dropped "extremely awesome Hyuuga-sama."

Hinata didn't know what to think of that.

"It is perfectly acceptable for you to accompany us, the strongest clan in Konoha, to avoid your teammate's wrath and to replenish her supplies. Unforeseen events happen during the course of every ninja's career," he said calmly. "And I am...aware of the Hokage's temper, and I'm sure your teammate picked some things up from her."

"Yeah!" Naruto shot another thumbs-up at Hiashi.

Someone kill me now, Hinata thought.

"Besides..." There was that funny look again. Why was her father giving her a funny look? "I am sure that Hinata will appreciate her friend's company. You are welcome to visit any time. My nephew always thought highly of you."

"He did?" Naruto asked. "I mean..." A wince flickered across his face. "Yeah...he did..."

Hiashi nodded.

"Very well. Hinata, if you would please help Naruto and Hanabi pack?" he asked, blithely walking away from the bizarre episode like nothing had even happened. "There are blood-soaked socks piled on her underwear. I do not expect such untidiness from the future heiress."

Hinata crossed her arms in a silent I told you so gesture at her sulking sister.

Hanabi stuck her tongue out at Hinata. "Watch out, nee-sama. We're all gonna be sharing a room with your future boyfriend."

Her face went as hot as broth again. "He's not my boyfriend!"

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