Lost Love

Chapter 4

"You hungry?" Himawari inquired as she smiled down at Hanasita. For a while now, Himawari decided to train Hanasita. Suzuka and Suzuki had enough and left a while ago. Himawari held her hand out, which Hanasita gladly took. She pulled her up with a smile.

"Everything hurts..." Hanasita groaned.

"Eh, you'll get over it," Himawari said.

"Right..." Hanasita murmured.

"Come on. You're surely hungry. We can go to my house and I can cook you something," Himawari suggested.

"Sure! I am hungry!" Hanasita exclaimed as they began their journey to Himawari's house. "Hey, Hima-Sensei, do you have a family?"

"Eh? A family? Well, I ain't got any kids or husband, but I do have two older brother — even though one's adopted — and both my parents," Himawari said, smiling and blushing a bit at the mention of her family who she loved dearly.

"You have a dad? That's nice. What's that like?" Hanasita asked.

Himawari turned to her with a straight face. "Do you know what clan your father's from?" she inquired.

"Nope. Mom hasn't told me anything about him." A shadow cast itself upon the young maiden's eyes. "I just wish... he never died..."

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The two girls arrived at Himawari's house. Himawari opened it and let her in. Hanasita headed to the kitchen and sat down at the table while Himawari went to cook something. Hanasita patiently waited for her. The sound of the front door opening caught her attention.

It closed, then a voice filled the house. "I'm home!"

Then, a boy, around Hanasita's mom's age, entered. He looked similar to Himawari, but also different. Hanasita watched him as he greeted Himawari.

His eyes travelled towards the youngest in the room, who suddenly became all shy at meeting a new person. She was like her mother in many ways, and this was one.

"Who's she?" he questioned.

"Oh? That's Kakei Hanasita," Himawari introduced.

"Kakei?" His eyes widened at the last name. It wasn't a clan name, but he knew that name anywhere.

Himawari leaned in closer to the man, whispering something in his ear that Hanasita couldn't hear. After pulling away, she smiled. "Hanasita, this is my older brother, Uzumaki Boruto."

"Nice to meet ya," Boruto said.

"N-N-Nice to meet you two..." Hanasita stuttered.

Himawari tilted her head a bit. Wasn't she just loud and talkative?

Boruto sat across from Hanasita, who was still nervous. Boruto scanned her, head from toe. She had Sumire's hair colour, but then his eye colour. But they were darker than his. What caught his attention was the one whisker birthmark on each cheek.

Himawari placed the food in front of Hanasita. "That's what I notice too, Onii-chan," Himawari said.

"What?" Hanasita looked up, but Himawari smiled and waved her hand.

"Oh, don't worry. Eat up, Hana-chan!" Himawari exclaimed cheerfully.

"We're home!" another man shouted, entering the house, then the kitchen. Behind him were two elderly people — a man and a woman.

"Kawaki-oniichan, Mom, Dad!" Himawari exclaimed in excitement.

So that's the Seventh Hokage Mom told me about... and the Byakugan Princess... Hanasita mused in her mind.

"Who's she?" Kawaki inquired, sitting next to Boruto.

The Jougan user turned to his adoptive brother, and the one that made him loose an eye. "She's Hima's student or something."

"Nice to meet you," the elderly woman said. "I'm Uzumaki Hinata. That's my husband, Uzumaki Naruto, and our son, Uzumaki Kawaki. It looks like you've already met the other two."

"Hima, I didn't know you were training anyone," Naruto said.

"Well, I never planed to, but she reminded me of you, Onii-chan," Himawari said.

"Eh? Me?" Boruto pointed at himself.

"Uh-huh! Her will to get stronger reminded me of the Chunin Exams that you participated in," Himawari clarified.

"Yeah... That was not my best time," Boruto said as everyone burst into laughter.

Hanasita looked between them. Having a full family seems nice. It's just Mom and me. I love her, but I've always longed for a dad, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, everything... Hanasita's eyes travelled to the plate.

"Hey now, you never introduced yourself," Naruto said.

"Huh? Oh, I'm Kakei Hanasita," Hanasita said, noticing everyone going quiet at her last name.

Naruto remembered when a Kakei had tried destroying the village, Hinata knew this last name, from her husband mentioning her a couple times, but she'd never met her, Kawaki knew her well.

Is she...? Now that I think about it, she does look like her... Kawaki questioned himself.

Hanasita looked between everyone, then over at Himawari. "Okay! Why all so quiet! Why don't we get to know Hana-chan?" Himawari tried lightening the mood.

Everyone made noises of agreement as the all sat at the table. The Uzumakis took turns in asking about Hanasita's home life, but none even asked the question they really wanted answered; who was her mother?

"Um, what's going on?" a female voice spoke up.

Heads turned to see a girl with long, blonde hair, blue eyes and one whisker. She was like a female Boruto, but younger and without the scar. She looked between everyone. She was probably around Hanasita's age, maybe.

"Sanada?"