Shikamaru walked in this small town wearing these torn clothes with sai beside him, they walked in this small shop after planning everything with sai they entered as if they were strangers who didn't know each other "welcome" the old lady behind the table spoke welcoming her new customers "can I get green tea?" shikamaru spoke "what about you?" she smiled wider at the other male since he was better looking and he had fooled her with his fake smile "dango please" they both sat in different tables but close to each other when she served sai his dango he spoke "I heard there was a war close to here is that true?" the expression on her face's changed as if she was remembering something, something that had hunted her "these big villages started it again, they always kill these people from small towns because we didn't have shinobis like theirs" she then smiled looking at him again "but don't worry we have akiko" that name caught shikamaru's attention more "who is that?" she answered sai with huge happiness in her face, the same eyes that the villagers have for their hokage , she started describing this person as if she was talking about some goddess "akiko was the one who saved us from all these villagers cruelty, she had gathered her army in a young age and trained them to protect us" shikamaru sipped from his tea wanting to know more and what's better than disagreeing to make the other talk more "I heard she killed so many from the villagers too" the old lady gasped at and looked at him "these all are lies it's because of that criminal who was back in the hidden leaf village after all he had done to us they have welcomed him with open arms as if he was a hero for killing us" sai looked at shikamaru "how many did he killed?" the lady sat on the chair opposite from sai and shook her hand in the air "I heard he killed so many kids too and so many families" shikamaru narrowed his eyes "he's sick" sai looked at shikamaru knowing that he was trying to make the old lady talk more "I know ,he even killed akiko's family" shikamaru sipped from his tea and pied then left leaving sai to deal with the old lady.
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Hinata was wide awake feeling tired to even react to the new chakra that was coming closer, too tired to open the door when its knocked twice "hinata-chaan, are inside?" that sound! Hinata gathered her strength and walked to the door and when she opened it she almost screamed when she saw her old friend "i..ino..ino-chan" hinata opened the door wider for her guest and ino didn't hesitate to run to hold the hyuga "I missed you so much" hinata felt a mixed of happiness and guilt she couldn't returned the hug she let her hands by her sides what right did she has to do so, she left her friends without anything to say no words were spoken from her mouth beside "I'm sorry" she whispered them to Ino's ears "I'm sorry" ino let go of her and stepped back with Looking at the hyuga with her softest eyes one could say that someone like her wasn't a shinobi "hinata?" She said her name quiet before she wiped those tears "I'm sorry that I wasn't there for you when u needed me" hjnata shook her head and wiped her tears but her eyes caught something, her bright lavender eyes widened looking down at the Yamanaka her hand find its way to her belly and touched it "Ino-chan?" And did nothing but smiled making sure that hinata understood it "how far?" The smile only got wider The Yamanaka touched her stomach feeling it by her palms "six" hinata looked up three months after her when she got pregnant, she moved aside to let the other kunoichi step inside, ino made herself comfortable once she went inside she was already walking around the tiny house chatting about whatever she wanted no limitations in her chats which made the hyuga admire her more, Ino looked in the small house walls before she turned holding a different look in her face a small smile in her lips as her blue eyes stared back at the hyuga's soul "ne, hinata" she didn't respond afraid of the question the Yamanaka might ask "was it worth it?" Hinata was caught off guard she stared back at Ino, she didn't think that the question would come this fast in a second hinata replied her life in her head comparing the life she has with sasuke and the one she had back in the fancy, huge mansion she knew what ino was asking about she was the clan's leader daughter, she was the hokage's fiancée and a princess of one of the greatest clan of konoha living in the most beautiful house surrounded with maids ,so was it worth living in this tiny house away from anyone throwing the title of the princess behind her back? To live with a man he was once a traitor to his own village, a man that had nothing in his life comparing to what she had before, was it worth turning her back to her past? "It wasn't easy" she admitted "it took me a long time to choose, leaving my clan, my position in the hyuga's and my whole village" tears gathered in her eyes and her voice cracked showing her struggles to choose as she remembered the only person who made her hesitate the most "leaving hanabi after our father's death, all these wasn't easy" hinata looked down to her huge belly "but I wasn't happy, not with the hokage ,not with the princess of the Hyūga nor escaping away from my feelings towards him it took me a while to admit that i love him even when I'm holding Naruto's arm my eyes would turn to the person behind us even when i left my huge house I found my only escape was him i still don't know how my feet dragged me to that dark, abandoned building while i have the huge hyuga's mansion opened for me, I had found whatever was missing in me in him, my happiness, my feelings that I thought i lost and will never come back, I thought that i would never taste the same joy of my feelings after my separation with Naruto but i was wrong, I'm living it everyday here with him in this tiny house, i love him ino-chan, I love him so much but I don't know why was it so hard to live a normal life with him? Why do i have to leave my little sister alone to be happy why do i have to leave my home why when I thought that i would live peacefully with him he got dragged away again, because he was forced to fix his mistakes? I want everyone to forget whoever Sasuke was, i know it selfish but i want him with me every second of the day" Ino looked at her friend no smiles no tears nothing was on her face she just stared at her as the hyuga let out whatever bothering her "So you're happy" Ino whispered and hinata looked up to her "Yes, I'm happy with him wherever he was" Ino clapped her hands "then I'm glad for you now I'm starving " she walked away as if nothing happened and hinata admired that about the Yamanaka
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