Whispers In The Dark

Kurama and White Lilies

Naruto returned on the same day Sasuke left to the news that he had attacked Hinata on the way out. He sat as Tsunade healed Hinata's wound but it seemed that she would scar. He shouldn't have left. He should have taken that damn Uchiha out when he had the chance. He should have known he couldn't trust the stray with Hinata.

Tsunade was busy healing all the Genin that had been sent out to take Sasuke back but the Uchiha had full on turned on them and almost killed them had it not been because Jounin Maito Gai joined the fight. The Sound Four had fallen along with their back up, a boy from the Kaguya clan that had been the reason Sasuke even got away. The worst case was Hyuuga Neji who almost died from a hole in his body due to his attempt to take Sasuke to face the Hyuuga's justice for what he had done to Hinata. She sighed as she looked over the girl.

Jiraiya had informed Tsunade what was wrong with Naruto. This girl is extremely important not just because of the blond but also because apparently the Kyuubi approved of her. Now that was something even she would never have expected; to think that a Bijuu can have a soft spot for a human of all thing. But from what Kakashi had reported to her, Hinata has little to no mean bone in her whole body. She can be angry but her anger was the silent, simmering kind. She was far from a violent person and had adapted to control either boy's antic with a gentle firmness.

It worked too well, apparently.

From Inoichi report after interrogating Hinata while under sedative, he had concluded that Uchiha Sasuke held an unhealthy obsession with the girl. It seemed that in his loneliness, he had latched onto the first genuine kindness sent his way. His continuous exposure to Hinata's unique brand of gentle understanding had only made his interest in her grow to a toxic level. Tsunade knew Uchiha, she knew from the little collection she had with Uchiha Madara. They're extremely loyal but that come with a side effect.

There's a reason why her Granduncle Tobirama decided to keep them all in the village if he could have it. They have a very unstable emotional condition. Once an Uchiha fell in love, they will do a lot of things for their precious person, which is why when they lost them that love became murky and turned into extreme bitterness. He called this the Curse of Hatred.

The worst part was that their Sharingan aggravate this condition. With their photographic recollection due to their Dojutsu, this made overcoming their traumatic experiences harder than ordinary people. In the older days, she read that some Uchiha had to be put down by their own clan before they really do damage due to going insane from losing their loved ones. Obviously that was really, really back in the old days. Nowadays they have a thing called mental health.

Too bad that with endurance Shinobi is too stubborn to really deal with their mental problems, thus the fact that the psychiatrist job is the loneliest and most useless job in Konoha. Shinobi just don't talk about their problems.

They deal with it by acting crazy like endless training like Gai or openly reading porn like Kakashi or binging on dango like Anko. You get it.

Tsunade sighed. Naruto had informed her that Hinata wanted to become a medic to better help her team. From what she heard, Hinata had gone against her own clan's tradition by even learning the basic of Iryojutsu. She smiled. Naruto was cold, silent and almost creepy like a doll. When Tsunade had asked his reason for wanting to become Hokage, he said that he can't trust Hinata's wellbeing to other people wearing the hat. For her sake, he will become Hokage.

It would have been shallow but she can see his deadly and frankly frightening dedication from his blazing blue eyes. If what Jiraiya told her about his grandfather then...he would turn on the Daimyo and Konoha if it meant keeping Hinata safe and by his side. The boy doesn't care about Konoha but Hinata does and because Hinata cared, he will look after Konoha for her. He will even go as far as keeping the rest of the world safe if it meant keeping her safe.