The One (Sasuhina)

By my side

It's dark. Where am I?

"Hinata! You are disgrace to the Hyuga clan! You are not worthy of carrying the Hyuga name. Your sister, 5 years younger than you beat you in a match. How shameful" I see my father tell a younger me.

What's going on?

"F-Father I-" I saw myself saying.

"-get out of my sight!" He demanded with a harsh tone.

I saw myself fighting back the tears threatening to spill out of my eyes any moment now. I was never able to look my father in the eye, now it's a bit easier though. My father's stone cold eyes looking down upon me. I looked like I wanted to shrink and hide somewhere that no one could ever find me.

"B-B-But F-Fath-" I saw myself stuttering and was cut off when my father slapped the younger me across the face. I... remember all of this. His slap had stung my cheek, making it turn red. The younger me looking surprised, then holding her cheek she ran out of the room.

She ran, and ran, and ran. Far away to her secret place. I was brought to this place in which I haven't visited for a long time.

I saw myself sneak into the opening of a large wide tree. Inside she had collected a lot of things she loved that her father would've either destroyed or forbidden.

In one corner, there were books the lady down the street from ichiraku's would let me borrow. She had books on how to get stronger. Books containing jutsu. Books containing the 5 great nations past. Books on how to cook.

There were pearls from the sea. Flowers growing in pots. Gifts from Kiba and Shino. And... in one corner, there were pictures...of Naruto, and gifts received from him which was really only one. A bracelet.

Young me sat in another corner of this inside a tree 'tree house' sobbing. Crying my heart out. Trying to keep silent and keep all these emotions from being exposed. I was already weak, I didn't want to show it, yet here I was exposing the limitless power of my weakness.

I saw a little boy come in. The little me then heard the noises and froze. She used her little hands and wiped off the tears and looked at the person with a forced fake smile sitting. The boy was standing and looked serious.

"S-Sasuke-san" the little me said, her voice cracking. I don't remember this. I only remember the incident with my father and the secret place. When did I encounter this boy? Why does it seem like he knew about me? How did he know about the place? I don't recall ever being friends with him.

"W-Why are y-you here?" Little Hinata asked still unable to keep from shaking. Her eyes stung and so did her cheek.

"Why are you crying?" He asked. His dark eyes looking straight at young me. His mouth in a straight line.

"I-I wasn't. I-It's nothing." Young me lied wiping under eyes and sniffing lightly.

"Hn." Sasuke said. There was silence for a couple of minutes as I looked down, embarrassed he had seen me like this.

"Y-You should l-leave. J-Just leave me a-alone... like e-everyone else doe-" little me said before stopping as little Sasuke walked over, kneeled, and hugged me tightly.

"Stop. I know how it feels like. You don't have to be alone. I'm here... for you" he said.

With that, I saw myself blush and tear up and cry into Sasuke's shoulder.

Then there is this bright light. It blinds me. When I'm finally able to see, I'm in the streets at night. It's dark.

I see a older me there, probably about three years older from when my father banished me from being the Hyuga leader.

I saw as the other me was walking that some big guys had started to surround the older me. Older me soon noticed and got into fighting stance.

"Woah, woah, hold it hyuga. We don't want to hurt you. Just come with us." A orange haired buff looking guy said. He didn't want to hurt me? Well then why was he holding a sword?

Older me said, "N-No. I have t-to go home"

"That's unfortunate. Guess we'll take you by force!" The leader said and they all began to attack the older me. Older Hinata couldn't keep up with the numbers and was caught. They over powered her, two people grabbed her arms tightly.

"The byakugan will be mine now! Hahahaha!" He laughed.

"Hn. Picking on a little girl, are we?" Some voice said. The older me slowly looked up to see a figure. Her vision was blurry but she could tell it was a young boy with black hair and blurry dark eyes on a tree, wearing a blue shirt with some white arm warmers and white pants. He jumped down then.

"Get out of here little boy. Or we'll have to hurt you too." One of them said.

"Let her go." He said. Why am I seeing this? I don't remember any of this. I do know about this, but I never knew the identity of this boy.

"Is that a threat?" They taunted and then began to laugh.

That's when I see the little boy spring into action. He kicked and spinned, he even looked like he was flying in the air. He was actually beating them up. The two guys let go of older me and charged at him very angrily. He kicked ones chin and kneed the other. They were all down. He was amazing.

He finished and dusted himself off. His back was facing older me. His head turned to the side to look at me and I think smiled. Older me blinked several times. Before he took off, my vision cleared and saw the boy.

It was Uchiha Sasuke.

Once again a bright light shown and I was transported to another place. I was a year older than the previous memory. I'll continue saying older me.

Older me was at school. The class was playing kick the can. I was running from the catcher. He was too fast. He was about to touch me when someone quickly picked me up from the ground and moved me far from the catcher. This had happened many times. The schools handsome popular guy always helped older me or sacrificed himself. This guy was Sasuke. Why did he always help me? He could save himself.

Then everything turned black. This memory disappeared too. But... why in all these memories, was Sasuke in them? Why was he always by my side?

(*Back to the real world*)

I opened my eyes slowly. The first thing that hit me was the bright light. What hit me next was the pain and soreness. My body hurted, in some places I was sore. Wait no let me rephrase that, everywhere felt sore and was in pain. Not too bad at least, I could stand it. Looking down at myself, my body was covered in bandages. My face too. Looking to my right, there was machine beeping that was connected to my wrist through some wire thing that had blood flowing through it. It also had another wire that traveled to the left side of me.

My eyes followed the wire to someone else's wrist. Who could this be? I looked up. There he was. The boy in my dream. No. The boy in my memories.

He was smiling down at me looking relieved.

"You're awake." He spoke weakly in his dark voice.

When our eyes met, and when his smile reached me, I blushed. He was here next to me. He always has been.

He was the boy, the person, that had always been...... by my side. Sasuke Uchiha...