Reborn as Sakura and Hinata: Lost in the Wind

Hyuga Time: A New Sister

I grabbed my shopping bags, shoving my wallet into my back pocket. If I was lucky, I would be able to slip out of here without drawing any attention to myself. I walked over to the kitchen counter, realizing I had forgotten the shopping list. That would've sucked. Just as I was stuffing it into my bag, I heard someone clear their throat behind me.

"Going somewhere?"

I inwardly groaned as I turned to face Neji. His arms were folded over his chest, and he was giving me a stern glare.

"I'm going to the store."

"Alone?"

"Yes."

He sighed heavily, "Not only did you sneak out of the house yesterday, but you tried to do it again?" he pinched the bridge of his nose, "What is wrong with you?"

"Nothing is wrong with me Neji, and there's our problem. You keep treating me like I am what's wrong." his expression softened from anger to something resembling regret, "I get it. I'm injured, but I'm mostly healed anyways. I wasn't even the worst one off of all of us!"

"Hinata, you know that isn't the only reason." Neji's tone took on a more pleading edge.

"No one's coming to kill me Neji. If they were, they'd have to do it in the middle of a crowded supermarket, and they'd have to deal with me." I jabbed a thumb back at myself, "Or have you forgotten how capable I am in fights now?"

Neji cringed a little. I knew I was starting to get kind of mean, but at the moment I honestly couldn't give shit. He was starting to royally piss me off with how he was trying to run my life.

"That doesn't mean you should go looking for trouble." Neji countered, beginning to become exasperated.

"I'm not looking for trouble. I'm looking for 6 cups of rice, 3 bunches of cilantro, 3 onions, 6 cans of tomat-"

"Okay! Okay!" Neji threw his hands up in the air, "But don't you realize your other problem!?"

"What would that be?"

"You still can't walk properly because of your eyesight." Neji gestured to the left side of my face. I scowled at him. He was technically right though. I still hadn't become fully used to seeing with only one eye, which is why I started to walk super close to others whenever we would go out as groups.

"I can still walk." I huffed, "I haven't injured myself walking alone yet."

"Yet. You've either lost your sense of danger, or you simply don't care."

"Why not both?" I hissed back.

"Why are you being like this? I just want you to be safe." Neji shouted.

"Really? Why would someone who would so easily harm me actually care about my well-being?"

"What?" Neji looked hopelessly at me.

"I don't know... the eye punching maybe?"

"I've tried to apologize for that!"

"But not for the reason you did it!" I yelled furiously, "You were willing to harm me in such a way because at that moment you dared to believe I didn't actually care for you!" He flinched and looked down shamefully, "You let a complex and your emotions, that I had previously thought I had fixed, surface and control you!" I grabbed the doorknob, completely prepared to just leave the conversation, "You fucking disgust me."

"Hinata! Wait!" Neji ran a few steps forward, "Can you at least tell me what you're shopping for?"

"You mean besides the 6 cups of rice, 3 bunches of cila-"