Hold on Hinata Chapter 19

Hold On Hinata

By: Sliverfall

Chapter Nineteen

A Lesson To Be Taught

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.


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“Ichigo have you noticed Hanabi has changed a bit over the last few months?” The excitable red haired boy by the name of Tite asked his friend. Ichigo shrugged and let an uninterested expression worm it’s way onto his face.

“Nope. To be honest I don’t pay all that much attention to Hanabi. Too stuck up for my tastes.” The Nara boy yawned. “So how is your dad? Has he improved at all?” Tite, no longer looking like the happy child everyone thought him to be, shook his head.

“No. There hasn’t been any change in his condition. My mom says that he will probably never wake up.” Ichigo patted Tite on the back and he smiled encouragingly.

“Don’t worry I’m sure he’ll wake up soon. What do you say we get back to training with the others. I for one want to beat my sister today. For such a laid back girl she sure packs a hell of a punch.” Tite laughed at this and rose from the ground. Ichigo was quicker than Tite and had already ran off to challenge his bored sister.

“Oy Tite why don’t you come and spar with me for awhile?” Tite directed his gaze to Naruto. He had his trademark grin promptly stuck to his fac and was motioning for Tite to train with him. Tite, putting on a similar smile, went over to train with his favorite sensei.


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Hinata closed the door of her locker a little violently. She had just heard some very upsetting news and it was bothering her to put it bluntly. After the training session yesterday Hinata had gone to see the Hokage to pick up her and Naruto’s next mission. Tsunade eagerly gave her the mission, but also, sadly, informed her of the death of Isshin Raki. At first Hinata was confused, but then it clicked. Isshin Raki was Tite’s father. Hinata had heard that he was in a coma, but she thought his condition was stable.

“Hinata, what’s up you look distracted.” Tenten pulled Hinata from her thoughts eruptly. Tenten, unlike Sakura and Ino, still attended school. The other two were on a leave of absence for obvious reasons. Ino was due to come back for the last couple weeks of school, but Sakura was excused for the rest of the year.

“Oh I was just thinking.” Hinata replied nonchalantly.

“About what? Oh wait let me guess. Naruto right?” Tenten teased in a joking manner.

“For once Naruto isn’t the one occupying my thoughts.” Hinata felt strong arms wrap themselves around her waist and a strong body press up against her. The warm breath of her unknown stalker danced on her neck as he began to speak.

“Well if your not thinking about me, what are you thinking about Hinata?” Hinata was unphased to discover the man behind her was Naruto. She knew no other man besides him would even dare get up the nerve to even consider touching her like that.

“The death of Tite’s father.” Hinata felt Naruto’s grip go slack as he digested what she had just said.

“Isshin Tite? Our genin student? You can’t be serious. Why wouldn’t he have told us something like that?” Naruto was gaping at the new enlightenment he had just been giving.

“Tite probably didn’t tell you because he didn’t want you to feel bad for him.” An unfamiliar orange haired girl had entered the conversation uninvited.

“Yes that makes sense I suppose.” Hinata responded to the newcomer. “If you don’t mind me asking just who are you?”

“Oh sorry, my name is Isshin Rika. Tite is my little brother.” Hinata opened her mouth to respond, but Rika cut her off. “No need to introduce yourselves. I know very well who you are. Tite has told me all about you.”

“Well it’s nice to meet you Rika.” Naruto put a kind smile. “We’re really sorry about your loss.” Rika waved it off.

“Don’t worry about it. Anyways I actually came to tell you Tite won’t be going to training for awhile. Family business you see.” Rika informed them in a pleasant tone.

“Thanks for telling us.” Hinata said politely.

“Yeah well I have to get going. I promised to meet my boyfriend Gaara before my next class.” Naruto, Hinata, and Tenten looked at each other, they were all wondering the same thing. Since when did Gaara have a girlfriend and why didn’t he tell anyone?

“I’m afraid Hinata and I should go too.” Said Tenten. “Our class starts in a few minutes.”

“Yeah Tenten is right. I’ll see you later, okay?” Standing on her tippy toes, Hinata quickly pecked Naruto on the lips and then sped down the hallway with Tenten.

“Gee I wish Neji would allow showings of affection in school. I can’t even go near the guy hardly anymore in public.” Sighed Tenten a little frustrated once they were out of Naruto’s earshot. “It’s ridiculous.”

“Neji never used to care about that kind of thing. I mean, come on. He used to be all over you in public. No matter where you were.”

“Yeah, I know. But some things change.” Frowned Tenten. “I wish they didn’t though.”

“If you don’t mind me asking, why did they change?” Inquired Hinata curious to know her answer.

“The Hyuuga council found out about our relationship.” She shook her head in disgust. “Now Neji is afraid of what they’ll do if they find out how serious we are.”

“You’ve got to be kidding me. That guy has no backbone at all.” Hinata spat out the bold declaration. “I’ve got an idea to fix Neji’s problem.” Tenten quirked her eyebrow with interest as she saw the devious twinkle in her friend’s eyes. Hinata was smiling like a madman as she explained her plan to Tenten who listened intently. She had no idea how she had gotten the idea. Hinata normally didn’t have much of a pranking side, maybe the fox was rubbing off on her. Hinata was happy that Tenten hadn’t mentioned the all too obvious difference about her eyes. At least one of her friends didn’t freak out at the sight of her today.

“I like it. Let’s do it.” Grinning like a Cheshire cat, Tenten rubbed her hands together in anticipation. This was going to be so much fun. An image of Neji with forcibly applied make up came into Tenten’s mind, making her grin even more. That was good, but this was going to be so much better. Who knew Hinata could be so mischievous?

“Alright we’ll do it tonight then while we all go shopping.” Nodding in agreement, Tenten giggled in excitement.

“This is going to be so good. I can’t wait.” In Tenten and Hinata’s excitement for the later events that would soon unfold, they managed to be late for class. No not just late, later than Kakashi-sensei. When the two unsuspecting girls arrived Kakashi was leaning back in his chair with his legs stretched out on his desk and his favorite book in hand.

“Tenten-san, Hinata-san you’re late.” Kakashi didn’t bother to look up at the two girls. “Would you mind explaining why?”

“Well Kakashi-sensei on our way here we ran into the cutest little fox you would ever see.” Explained Hinata in sincere manner.

“Yeah and the poor little guy had sprained his paw. So of course we had to stop and help him.” Continued Tenten as if she was saying nothing out of the ordinary and every word that was spilling from her mouth was the complete and utter truth.

“Tenten-san, Hinata-san.” Kakashi’s voice seemed to be filled with malice. Then he looked up at the them finally. Tears were streaming out of his one visible eye and it was plain to see he was smiling under his mask. With out warning he leapt from his chair and hugged the two girls. “That was beautiful! I shall excuse your tardiness and give you extra credit!” He let go of the two girls after this outburst and recovered his composure. “Now please take your seats and get to work on the assignment that is written on the board.” Hinata and Tenten, not believing their luck, didn’t hesitate to get to their seats and immediately start to work.

“Kakashi-sensei how come you let them off for such a lame excuse.” It was Neji who had spoken up. “I tried something similar the other day and you told me I had detention!” There he went again, complaining about unfair situations.

“Your story was unconvincing and very lame. Theirs was cute.” Neji muttered something under his breath. “Hyuuga Neji detention with me tomorrow at 4:00 am.” Kakashi was smiling again. “You get to help me feed Anko-sensei’s snakes.” Neji gaped at him in absolute horror. The last student who got that punishment from Kakashi never came back. Neji did the only thing a real man could do. He promptly fainted on the spot. Kakashi just kept grinning as he took out a digi-cam and snapped a few snapshots of the fainted Neji, well after he drew all over his face with a permanent marker of course. Naruto, Kakashi’s secret partner in crime, would be very pleased to see such hilarious photos. Maybe then he would finally let Kakashi see the pictures of the time Anko fell asleep in Naruto’s class and was drooling all over her desk. Needless to say Kakashi was in a very good mood for the rest of the class.


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“Shikamaru you should go to school.” Temari was sitting cross legged on the floor folding their laundry. “You are not sick. I can tell.” She was directing her words towards the lump lying on the couch that went by the name of Shikamaru. He didn’t respond, Shikamaru was too deep in his thoughts to realize he was even being spoken to. “Oy, lazy man get up or I’ll make you get up.” He heard her this time.

“Hai, hai. I’ll get up you troublesome woman.” This earned him a quick smack on the head. “What did you do that for?”

“I told you not to call me that you troublesome man.” Temari scolded Shikamaru in a bored tone. “As long as you’re here you can help me with these.” She gestured to the heap of clothing next to her.

“Fine, but only if you don’t hit me again.” This got him another smack on the head.

“Get to work mister!” Temari commanded. Shockingly, without even murmuring the word troublesome Shikamaru sat down next to Temari and started to fold the clothes with her. “Good boy.” Temari was smiling happily now.

‘Troublesome woman.’ Shikamaru thought to himself. But even he had to admit, if anyone else had told him to fold clothes he would have complained and refused to do a thing. How frustrating his life had become, even so Shikamaru had never been happier.


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“Rika we should really get back to class.” Gaara said. It was not hard to tell he was worried about skipping class.

“Haven’t you ever skipped class before Gaara?” When Gaara shook his head no, Rika laughed. “I’m surprised.”

“Why? Is it so hard to believe that I try to be the model student?” Gaara asked her honestly.

“Well, actually, yes. The way your agency portrays you is as a complete bad boy.” Responded a now flustered Rika. Gaara smiled at her, all his worry about missing school gone.

“I never said I wasn’t a bad boy.” A playful smirk lit up Gaara’s eyes. “You’ll find that I can be quite bad.” Gaara pulled a set of keys from his pocket. “Come on. My ride is over here.” He led Rika to a black and blood red racing motorcycle. The kanji for love, the same one on Gaara’s forehead, was written on it. “Here.” Gaara threw Rika his helmet.

“What about you?” Gaara smiled again, this time reassuringly.

“Don’t worry. I’ve got a hard head. Besides I don’t intend on crashing.” Gaara had seated himself on the bike and had stuck the key in the ignition. The bike roared to life. Rika stood staring at him. “Are you coming?”

“Yeah.” She climbed onto the bike right behind Gaara.

“Hold on tight.” Burning rubber; Gaara and Rika sped out of the school parking lot and into the city.


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“What is this?” Naruto was pointing to the paste that was suppose to be his lunch. “It doesn’t even look edible.”

“Don’t eat it.” Neji said firmly. “It tastes horrible.” The Hyuuga didn’t have enough backbone any longer to kiss Tenten in public, but he had enough to try what the school cooks called food. It was unbelievable.

“You’re crazy man.” Kiba declared. “Nobody in his right mind would eat this stuff.”

“You’re right.” Agreed Hinata. “Neji must not be in his right mind then.” She laughed. Hinata knew all too well why Neji was acting this way. Tenten knew as well of course and she had been calmly telling him all morning he wasn’t going to die in detention. Neji was unconvinced.

“Oy. Let’s ditch this place.” Naruto practically ordered as he stood up. Everyone nodded in agreement. In minutes they were all in the school parking lot. Naruto and Hinata slid into his silver mustang while the others got in their own cars or on their motorcycles. “So where should we go my love?” Hinata smiled deviously at him.

“The mall.”

“Alright. To the mall then.” Hinata’s cell phone rang. Predictably, she answered it. It was Tenten.

“Yeah. We’re going to the mall.” Hinata’s smile grew even more devious. “It’s about time we taught that person his lesson. Right. Ja Nae.”

“What was that about?” Questioned Naruto, a curious look on his face.

“Oh nothing. You’ll find out soon enough.” Suddenly, Naruto wasn’t so sure he really wanted to go to the mall. Unfortunately, he had already said yes. All he could do was pray. Pray that he wasn’t going to be the victim of whatever Hinata was planning with her friends.


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The phone rang in the Inuzuka residence waking the sleeping Kino and his mother from their blissful sleep. Rocking Kino and grumbling about rude people, Ino answered the phone in annoyance.

“Moshi, moshi?”

“Ino?” A voice said over the connection. The noise of traffic could be faintly heard in the background.

“Yeah it’s me.”

“Okay this is Kiba. I wanted to know if you would like to come do a little shopping with me and the others.”

“I’d love to, but what about Kino?”

“Bring him with of course.” Ino looked down at the now sleeping three week old in her arms.

“Are you sure?”

“Yes. Everyone would love to see him and if I remember right he could use some new clothes and toys.” Kiba had a point.

“Okay. We’ll be ready in five.”

“Alright. I’ll be right there to pick you up.”


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“You can open your eyes now Sakura.” Sasuke was holding the hand of the said pink haired shinobi as he opened a newly furnished door. Upon looking inside Sakura’s jaw dropped. “Welcome to your new home.” Sasuke had taken Sakura from their apartment earlier and had not allowed her to open her eyes even once after they got into the car. Now she knew why as she stood with him on the doorstep of the Uchiha complex. She had heard the place was wrecked and destroyed from that incident all those years ago on the inside. But now looking into the entry way of the huge complex that didn’t seem to be the case.

“Sasuke this is amazing.” Sakura breathed in awe.

“I’m glad you like it.” He led Sakura inside the complex. “I had the entire thing remodeled and refurnished. Since we are starting a family I didn’t think it was proper to live in an apartment anymore.”

“I’d have to say Sasuke that this is kind of unexpected. I mean it’s great, but the Uchiha complex? Doesn’t this place hold some of your worst memories?” Sakura knew she shouldn’t have said it even before she finished. Thankfully Sasuke just smiled sadly.

“That’s true it does. But I want to make new memories here with you and our child. Good ones that will wash away the old ones.” Sasuke gently embraced Sakura. “Would you like to see the rest of the complex?”

“Yes. I would love to.” With that, Sasuke took Sakura by the hand and began to show her everything there was to know about the complex.


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“Ino! It’s great to see you.” Hinata was smiling as she welcomed her friend.

“Great to see you too Hinata. So tell me have you and Naruto made any progress on your baby situation yet?” Ino asked Hinata in a sweet, I’m so innocent voice. Hinata went sickly white as soon as she heard the question.

“I was unaware Naruto and I have a baby situation.” Hinata replied. Ino smiled at this.

“Oh so what your saying is that you’re going to have a baby then.” Accused Ino as she cradled Kino to her. Tenten, who had overheard the conversation so far was laughing.

“No I’m not. At least I don’t think so.” Something clicked in the back of her head. Her and Naruto they had done it. What if? What if? She dismissed it before she could give it anymore thought. It just wasn’t possible.

“Oh? What is that suppose to mean? Did you and Naruto finally do it?” Tenten asked her teasingly.

“As a matter of fact, yes we did.” Snapped Hinata before she could stop herself. “Shit. I didn’t mean to say that.”

“You’re serious aren’t you?” Ino was baffled. She thought it would never happen between the two. “Have you checked to make sure you’re not yet?”

“No. I don’t intend to either. Cause I’m not. I think I would know by now.” Hinata snapped again.

“How long ago did you two do it?” Inquired Tenten.

“The first time or the most recent time?” Judging by the looks on her two friends faces that’s not what they were expecting to come out of her mouth. “Alright, alright. The first time was about two weeks ago.”

“That’s not long enough to tell without a test.” Frowned Ino. “If you’re not careful you might be in for a rude awakening in a couple weeks.”

“Oh stop bugging me about it. I’m sure I’m not.” Hinata glared at Ino informing her to drop the subject.


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“What are those three talking about?” Said a questioning Neji.

“Babies.” Replied Naruto.

“Nani? You’re kidding right?” Neji eyed Naruto suspiciously. After enough prodding Naruto had gotten Hinata to tell him what they were up to. Needless to say he was relieved to hear he was not the target. Hinata was quick to recruit him. She told him what to do.

“No. I’m not. You know very well I can hear that far away.” He really was listening in and surprisingly he was telling the truth. Hinata said they probably wouldn’t be talking about that subject at all. Yet they were.

“Any new developments we should know about?” Kiba asked, interested to know. For the time being Kiba had no idea about the prank, but very soon if this went as planned he would.

“They’re obviously coddling your adopted son Kiba. Oh did I mention that Tenten just said she was pregnant and she was asking the others how she should tell Neji.” It took a few seconds for this to sink in. Hinata told him how originally that part was suppose to be a joke, but when she told Tenten about it she found it was actually the truth. Tenten really was pregnant and she had no idea how to tell Neji about it.

“NANI?” Neji’s eyes were the size of saucers due to shock. For the second time that day Neji fainted on the spot. All the while Kiba and Naruto roared with laughter. Phase one was complete.


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“Lily? Are you home?” Our favorite Konoha green beast reincarnate yelled as he stepped through the doorway of a large clan complex. A beautiful brown haired woman with deep green eyes stuck her head around the corner.

“Yeah honey I’m here. I’ve got lunch almost ready, okay?” Rock Lily smiled as she ducked back around the corner. Lee couldn’t help but to put a large gleeful smile on his own face at the sight of his wife.

“Lily where’s Daisuke?” Lily’s head popped back around the corner.

“He should be in the living room.” Lee nodded and started towards the living room. He never made it there. He was attacked by a small blur of dark green before he had even taken two steps.

“Daddy!” A happy three year old was clinging to Lee’s leg. Lee almost burst into tears in joy.

“YOSH! Your enthusiasm is a great show of YOUTH!” Lee bellowed to his son who laughed in amusement.

“Now boys calm down. It’s time to eat.” The crying of a baby suddenly echoed through the house. Lily started to stand up, but Lee stopped her.

“I’ll see to Saya. You eat.” Lee was smiling ever so gently as he strolled off to get his baby daughter. Rock Lee loved his family more than anything else in this world and he wanted to spend every minute he could with them.


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“Neji wake up.” No response. Tenten sighed. The poor Hyuuga must be in shock. She took the glass of ice cold water Naruto was offering to her and poured it on Neji’s face. His eyes shot open.

“Tenten! I just had the most shocking nightmare!” Tenten’s eye began twitching.

“Neji that wasn’t a nightmare.” Tenten was barely able to control her giggling. They had put Neji under a strong jutsu to make him believe he was naked. But in truth he was just dressed in the most frilly pink dress they could find complete with a set of high heels. Obviously it hadn’t taken effect. “I really am pregnant.” Neji gaped at her. He didn’t know that originally he was only going to be told that, the first time at least, to get him to pass out.

“Seriously?” He questioned her.

“Yes seriously.” Neji began to smile.

“I’m so happy. I get to be a daddy.” Neji got a dreamy look on his face. Tenten smiled in relief.

“Oy Neji. Stop day dreaming and go put some clothes on.” Naruto barked pretending to be grossed out.

“Clothes?” Neji looked down and saw a naked body. His naked body to be exact. He looked around frantically for his clothing. He didn’t see anything. Part of the jutsu was that he would be unable to conceive clothing anywhere around him. “Gah! My clothes! Where are my clothes?” He jumped up unexpectantly. He was starting to draw a crowd. “CLOTHES! I NEED CLOTHES!!” He started running, hands supposedly covering his privates, away from them yelling for clothes. People all around where snickering. Kiba was using his cell phone to take pictures while Hinata was using Naruto’s camera, which she stole. Naruto on the other hand was filming the entire event with his video camera.


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“Password?” A tall, burly looking guy asked. He was standing infront of a large door, obviously guarding it.

“Sode no Shirayuki.” The words leapt from Gaara’s lips without him even having to think about it.

“You may pass. Have a nice day Gaara-sama.” The guard bowed to Gaara, who nodded in acknowledgment.

“Gaara where are we?” Rika glanced up at him with fear in her eyes.

“My home.” Her eyes widened slightly.

“This is your house?” She took in her surroundings. The walls were painted black, but they were covered in pictures from shoulder height up. The carpet was red and she could see that all the doors in sight had Gaara’s clan symbol on them.

“Yeah. It’s not much. Nothing compared to where I used to live.” He smiled and pulled her farther into the complex. She could tell the entire house was similarly decorated throughout.

“Used to live?”

“Oh yeah I used to live in Sand Country. But I left. Let’s just say I didn’t exactly like my family.” Gaara explained briefly.

“Why was there a guard at the door?” Gaara cracked a smirk.

“Oh that’s just because aside from this being my home it’s the headquarters for Sode no Shirayuki.”

“Sode no Shirayuki?”

“It’s the name of a gang. My gang.” Rika couldn’t believe what she had just heard. Gaara was in a gang. “We don’t do anything bad actually. We just protect this quarter of the neighborhood. When I first got here this place was horrid. Killing all the time and fighting. A whole bunch of other shit was always going on too. So I put together this group to put a stop to it. All of the members were people who didn’t want to see that sort of thing go on anymore. So I trained them and eventually we improved the place.” Rika would have never guessed this seemingly nice neighborhood was once so horrible.


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“I can’t believe you did that!” Neji yelled angrily at Tenten. “That was a dirty rotten trick.”

“It wasn’t my idea and besides I wanted to teach you a lesson.”

“What sort of lesson?” Neji asked, still angry.

“A lesson to teach you of what can be done to you if you don’t stop alienating me in public.” Tenten replied as Neji went a little pale.

“I can deal with the dress and the naked jutsu, but why lie to me about having a baby? That’s just way to cruel.” Neji scowled. Tenten stood up and walked over to his chair. She straddled him and put his hand on her stomach.

“I wasn’t lying. If you don’t believe me you can check with your byakugan.” Neji’s expression softened.

“So you really are pregnant then?”

“Yes.” Neji locked Tenten in a passionate kiss that quickly took her breath away. “Neji you haven’t kissed me like that since I agreed to marry you.”

“That’s because I’m so happy.”


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Word Guide

Nani- What

Demo - but

Nande- Why

Arigatou- Thank You

Gomen- Sorry

Gomen Nasai- I’m Sorry

Anou- umm

Teme- Bastard

Dobe- Blockhead

Moshi Moshi- Japanese phone greeting

Ja Nae- Good Bye

Meina- everyone

Baa-chan -Granny

Aniki- brother

Ohayo - good morning


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