Intertwined Ripples

Flowers on Their Crowns

AN: Thanks for the comments and wanting this story to continue. I don't own any of the pictures or Naruto. Enjoy and Happy Halloween 

Hinata looked from a distance with melancholy as hired construction workers and some of the men of her family taking out ruined framework of her house. All week she watched them sifting through ashes and rubble trying to find any of value or an heirloom that was thought to be lost in the fire. All of her mother's things and even photo albums of her were destroyed. Nothing, but memories that she would need to stay ingrained in her brain, so she to be able to describe to Hanabi when she was older.

Hinata could only feel blessed that not many were claimed by the fire and that she survived all thanks to Obito. It set a spark in her to get strong especially since someone intently to kill her by trapping in her burning home. She didn't want to be an heiress who need to be constantly saved or treated like a porcelain doll.

"Lady Hinata are you ready to go to school?" Kō said startled her out of her trance.

"Are you feeling alright?"

"Y-Yes it just I'm tired," She said partly true because ever since the destruction of her house, she had to share a room with her sister which wasn't so bad. But it was more of the room of who she took over which was Neji's. Hinata knew he hated her guts and just wished her father didn't force him to give up his room because she easily slept in a guestroom in the lower branch houses.

Kō was slightly worried as he watched her rub her eyes and knew she been through a lot. This whole week has been a whirlwind full of accusations within their own clan. The investigation within the clan wasn't turning up anything and just didn't make sense. Who would start a fire and then deliberately trap Hinata in the closet?

He knew his clan had many enemies, but someone from his own family, and why try to kill Lady Hinata. But it had to be someone in their clan because no one outside their family knew the layout of main estate or how to avoid everyone blind spot to commit arson was extremely risky and bold. Whoever did it, they beyond dangerous and if he had to be frank most likely powerful.

"Are you sure you don't want to stay home today Lady Hinata? I know it been some rough couple days for you," Kō suggested kindly because he suddenly had feeling to not let her out of his sight.

"No want to go to school I don't want to miss a day," Hinata said adamantly because she wanted to make sure Obito didn't get too behind in school because he was still stuck at the hospital. She hadn't him seen since the whole incident and compare to him her injuries were very minor.

"Is there any way I can visit Obito after school?" she asked cautiously because she knew it been a chaotic time for her family.

"We will see if that possible Lady Hinata," Kō frowned as they began to walk toward the academy. It not that he didn't like the Uchiha child, he just thought it was suspicious of why and how Obito was there in the first place because the fire started at two in the morning. The main thing that feed into that suspicion was where was his caretaker Shisui in all of this to stop him?

Meanwhile at Konoha hospital

 Obito was bored of being at this hospital and wanted to go back home already or at least back to the academy. He has been here for five days it was driving him crazy and really it felt like he has been here longer than he needed to be. The food here was atrocious and if he was sleeping there always a nurse there to wake him up to check on his burns. To Obito being in the hospital were just uncomfortable and he was itching to get out to get fresh air again.

"Go fish..." Obito said dully as he stared at his opponent.

"Well it looked like you win again Obito," Kakashi replied not even looking up from his book.