𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐀 𝐇𝐘𝐔𝐆𝐀 𝐓𝐖𝐈𝐍

Teams

A/N: So, I'm going to drop all the suffixes unless it's someone important or a Sensei.

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It had been 7 years since Hanara and Neji had been forced to leave their home and live with Hikaru Hyuga. The children had looked up to him as an older brother during the short year they had lived in his home. Yua Hyuga, Hikaru's mother, was nothing but loving and kind. She had given both Neji and Hanara cooking lessons during their stay.

"How are you both going to live by yourself if you can't even cook?" she had exclaimed when Neji had informed her that he couldn't cook the rice.

Even after Neji had started at the academy, Yua had found ways to help the two children. When Hanara and Neji moved back into their old home, they had found out that Yua had kept Neji's deceased mom, Ren's garden alive. On top of that, she had added fruits and vegetables to it so that the children wouldn't have to always buy food. Yua also gave them money each week so that they wouldn't have to keep relying on the plants even after they had told her that Hiashi was already doing so. In short, Yua was the caring adult the children desperately needed in their lives.

Hanara smiles softly, Yua was one of the few sparks of light in her life. Living in the Naruto world is stressful and Hanara found that out the hard way. Despite her efforts, Hanara could not give Sasuke a family. That boy was unapproachable even when he wasn't revenge obsessed and her being a female didn't help. He has it stuck in his head that all females are fangirls and so he avoids every female that comes up to him and soon, Hanara gave up on him. She wasn't going to give in to that reputation by going beside him every time she saw him. Pride is definitely one of Hanara's flaws.

Hanara sighed. Currently, she was in class and as always, Iruka-Sensei was late. Today was the day everyone who passed the graduation exams would get their teams and of course, she was exhausted. She had stayed up all night waiting for Neji to return from his mission. His team always returned the night before they were set to return and it drove her crazy. Don't get Hanara wrong, she knew she could sleep and just wait to see Neji in the morning but knowing Neji's team, they wouldn't have stopped for dinner and she was not going to let her brother starve.

Hanara looked at the clock at the front of the room and sighed. It was 8:32 and it didn't seem like Iruka was going to get to class anytime soon. Uzumaki was already here instead of causing trouble for once, although everyone was looking at him like he was crazy. 'HA! They should know that he would have passed by now! He's so unpredictable.' she thought before feeling another wave of sleepiness overcome her, 'Oh, fuck it, I'm sleeping now.'

"Hey, Shikamaru-" she started, looking at her neighbour before realizing that he was sleeping.

"Of all the people to sit next to," she muttered grumpily before looking at the third person at her table, "Hey Choji, can you wake me up if I'm not awake when Iruka-Sensei comes?"

"Sure Hanara, I have to wake up Shikamaru anyway."

"Thanks," she smiled as she folded her arms and put her head on them, falling asleep

Choji and Hanara were decent friends. The girl had seen him being bullied for his size one day when Shikamaru wasn't there and stepped in, scaring the bullies away. Ever since then, they hung out together when she wasn't training, forcing Hanara and Shikamaru to become friends as well. Hanara wasn't as close with the boys as they were each other but she could count on them to have her back and that was all she wanted. She didn't want to get in the way of their unbreakable bond and so, she often used her training as an excuse to bring them closer together. Another reason was their teams. Hanara knew enough about Naruto to know that the chances of her, Choji, and Shikamaru being on the same team was practically nonexistent. First of all, there was formation Ino-Shika-Cho to think about, then there was the fact that she was a Hyuga with the byakugan. That practically screamed tracker team. Of course, Hinata was already on one but they could put the two of them together... not that they would get along but they did that for Sasuke and Naruto.