Neji Hyuga Love Story: Into the Dark

Chapter Two

Chapter Two

Amagiri Hanae, had a very confusing childhood. Her father, a strong leaf shinobi, left for a stratigic mission when she was three years old. The only memory she seems to have of him was saying goodbye. He told her he would return in a few days, with a present for her from the the land of rice fields. Hanae and her mother, Amagiri Katsoko, waved farewell to their loved one. She had never seen him since, and the third hokage of the leaf, announced him as deceased, KIA, along with the others of his squad two weeks later.

Hanae and her mother were devasted, and after that, Katsoko always seemed distant, and distracted, up until Hanae was about five. She had just come from training for the academy, calling out her mother's name in their house. She walked around trying to find her, when she finally reached her parents room, where her mother was on her knees on the floor matt, a kunai held up to her own neck. Hanae screamed, "Mother! No!" And at that moment, Hanae's mother, Katsoko, cut her own throat, killing herself because living with the pain of her dead husband was just too much. Hanae fell to her knees instantly, bawling, in shock of just seeing her mother, her only family, commit suicide.

Luckily, a few of leaf shinobi were walking around the neighborhood, and heard Hanae's desperate cry's. One kunoichi and two shinobi ran into the house and found Hanae and her mother. After that, Hanae only remembers: being rushed out of the house by the kunoichi, who was calmly asking her what happened; seeing her mothers body taken away by two shinobi; and standing in front of the third, sobs filling her throat as she did not know what she had just seen.

It had been around ten years since that had occurred. And a lot had changed. Hanae had buried that memory deep, deep down inside of her. She was always an optimistic, happy little girl, despite her past family... Events. The Kunoichi that found Hanae in that god forsaken house that summer night, took her in and raised her to be a bright, young kunoichi. The woman who became her guardian, was Kurenai Yūhi. Hanae had lived with Kurenai Sensei up until she was about 15, when Kurenai explained that she believed she would be able to live on her own now, as Kurenai was not her parent, and felt it was only right.

As said earlier, Hanae was always happy, although very shy. She kept to herself, a polite little girl. This explains why her and Hyuga Hinata, became such good friends when they were little girls. They grew up together, although Hinata was always recognized more because of her Hyuga Heiress title, and Hanae went quite unnoticed due to her quiet nature. In fact, there was little to no one in the academy who really knew her besides Hinata. But she never developed any sort of bad feelings towards this, she was just too kind hearted to experience traits such as jealousy or selfishness.

Kurenai raised Amagiri Hanae to be very strong, and had managed to even teach her a small amount of genjustsu techniques, although Hanae excelled in ninjutsus and testing in the academy. When she became a genin at age 12, she was put on a four man squad with Asuma Sensei as the leader. Her team consisted of Yamanaka Ino, Nara Skikamaru, and Akamichi Chōji. She was never the strongest shinobi of her class, and this is was one of the few things that bothered her. She was never above average with her shinobi training, and it was a goal of hers to change that some how.

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A/N: OC character development, see? She's not that bad!