Chapter 16 Father and Daughter Reunion
"It's been so long but there's no news... Husband, do you think Hinata would... have been taken out of the village and kidnapped?" In the Hinata clan mansion, Hinata carried his hands behind his back and walked anxiously, and the beautiful woman who had been watching him was worried and gritted her teeth and hesitated for a while, then raised her hand and slowly put it on Hinata's shoulder and suggested, "Sure enough, we should still inform the third generation of Hokage, right? If we use the power of the village, maybe we can still find Hinata back..."
"...It's not the time yet, wait and see." Hearing his wife's words, Hikazu paused. After a long time, he clasped his fists with his hands as if he could not make up his mind, and said with difficulty, "Maybe... they will be able to find Hinata back soon."
"Still waiting? It's been so long, but I can't find it if I wait any longer! Why, why are you just unwilling to ask for help from the third generation Hokage?" After seeing her husband's hesitation, the beautiful woman, who had been patient and suppressed, could not bear it anymore and shook her husband's shoulders hard. Her trembling words gradually became infected with the fear and anger of losing her beloved child. Finally, she let go of her husband and sat on the ground, covering her face with her hands and sobbing slightly, "It was obviously the memorial service you brought Hinata to attend... Why... Why didn't you see that the child disappeared..."
“…I’m sorry…I…”
Perhaps it was because of his wife's wail, or because of the long-term search for the gradually bleak hope of the tribe, the heart of Rizu became more and more confused. When he was half kneeling down and planning to comfort his wife, the closed door was pushed open in panic at this time.
"Clan...Clan...Clan..."
"What's wrong? It's so chaotic, what's the point?" Seeing this tribe member who broke in inappropriately, Nishizuma wanted to scold him as before, but his heartbeat suddenly accelerated after seeing his mixed face. He kept his tone calm as much as possible, while continuing to say, "If you have something to say slowly, what's wrong?"
"Clan... cough... patriarch, ha, ha... Lord Hinata... she... she..." The Hyuga tribe ninja, who was sweating and panting, took deep breaths to soothe his lungs that were ignited and painfully under intense exercise. After a long time, he barely expressed his intention to express, "Lord Hinata... she found it! Lord Hinata is still in the village, and is standing at the gate of our tribe's territory!"
"Hyuta... Found it, found it!? Great! Husband, did you hear it? Hinata was looking for it, not kidnapped, and was still in the village!" Hinata's mother's eyes were dull and repeated the good news brought back by the clan members. Tears of tears of joy continued to slide down her face, regardless of the clan members' presence, she threw down her usual majesty as a mistress and rushed into her husband's arms, jumping and jumping happily.
"Oh, ah, I heard it... Just find it..." Hikasaki was filled with great surprise when he heard the news, and resisted the urge to hug his wife and laugh and celebrate, trying to suppress the excited expression on his face to maintain the majesty of the patriarch, but he still couldn't avoid the trembling hands that revealed his joy in his heart. "Then what are you waiting for? Why don't you pick Hinata up quickly?"
"About this...Clan leader, listen to me..." The Hyuga clan ninja who knew that he could not escape from it sighed slightly. After pausing a little, he stepped forward and approached a little in order not to let the excited mistress suffer another blow, and continued to say in a low voice in Hizuki's ear, "Hyuta has found it...but... the person who sent Hizuta back is likely to suddenly go wild and hurt Hizuta, so that we don't dare to contact him rashly..."
"He hurt Hinata? Humph, I think you are afraid of taking responsibility? Well, for Hinata's return, I'll go there in person." Knowing that my daughter was just hanging in the heart of Hinata at the door of her house, the huge rock hanging in the heart of Hinata finally fell to the ground. After pausing a little, she frowned and continued proudly and confidently, "Even the third generation of Hokage wants to give me some thin face to Hinata. I want to see who is in this Konoha Ninja Village who has eaten the courage of Bear Heart and Leopard. Can I have the courage to hurt my Hyuga clan's eldest lady? Say! Who is that person?"
As expected, I thought my words of exemption from sin would make the clan members feel at ease, but in fact I saw some mercy in the eyes of the clan members... mercy?!
"That person is called Naruto Uzumaki..."
"..." The smile on Hinata Hinata's face gradually disappeared.
"Ah, patriarch, if you can't remember who it is, Uzumaki Naruto is the nine-tailed monster circulating in the village..." Hinata Hirasa began to lift her feet and walk home.
"Ahhh? Where are you going, Master? Don't leave, Master, that direction is reversed! Didn't you agree to pick up Lord Hinata in person?"
"...Shut up! No one treats you as a mute if you don't speak!"
The village's strongest war weapon, the Nine-Tail Tsukiriki, was actually staying with such a dangerous monster. If it was not handled properly, it would cause Nine-Tail to go wild again... Such a tricky reality made Hirosa regret not notifying the third-degree Hokage in advance to deal with it, and suddenly felt a little crying and tears.
"Hyuta... Dad suddenly felt that if you were kidnapped by the enemy, it would seem easier to solve the problem..."
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"Hyuga, Hinata, Hinata...ah, I found it!"
While Hinata was sighing with concern, Naruto, who was holding Hinata around and looking around, slowly stopped in front of the gate with the plaque with the word "Hyuga".
Although Naruto knew that the Hinata clan was one of the top major tribes in Konoha, the existence of the blood-stained white eyes was as famous as the Uchiha clan, and its economic conditions must be much superior to those of ordinary families... But even though he was mentally prepared in advance, he couldn't help swallowing after seeing the large group of houses arranged in an orderly manner in front of him.
"The same is the second generation of officials and the second generation of rich people, why is the gap in life so big?!" Thinking about the contrast between the shabby and dilapidated cottage where he lived and the mansion in front of him, and thinking about Sasuke who could be asked from his father no matter what jutsu he wanted, Naruto's mouth twitched and he couldn't help but wondering about life. "I didn't pay much attention to it, but now I think about it, the difficulty level of Naruto when he was born was definitely purgatory... It's really hard for him to live to be twelve years old safely and optimistically under this condition..."
"Hmm? What's wrong with you?"
"...Nothing is nothing, I just thought, the place where you live is really big... There must be many people here with you, right?" Naruto, who came to his senses because of curious inquiries from the people around him, couldn't help but reach out and scrape Hinata's cute nose. He remembered the helpless crying when he first saw this child, and then curled his eyes and laughed in the surprised and shy eyes, "With such a big house, why do you still run away from home and cry alone on the side of the road?"
“…ah? I…”
"Hehe, look at me, there is not a single person around me, but I don't live anyway every day - are you happy?" [←Sasuke's heart was not fluctuating after hearing this, but he just wanted to use the Technique of the High Fireball to make Braised Naruto.]
Naruto, who was blunt and sarcastically interrupted Hinata's thought of blushing face, tried to defend herself, and then teased her for a while and slowly let go of her little hand that was tightly held by her. She hugged her head with her hands and turned around and swayed back towards the same direction as she came.
Although the purpose of coming was to send the lost child of the Hinata clan back safely, as an unpopular demon fox, Naruto knew that he would stop and return home, so as not to be happy about the ending due to misunderstandings.
What's more, because of the little episode of sending someone home, I spent a lot of my remaining leisure time alone tonight... Since I have decided to take action in advance to have some fun for Danzo, I have to hurry up and go home to meet one of my tenants.
"Well, I've already arrived at the door. You probably know how to get home next, right? Then, I'll go first, goodbye!"
"...ah, wait...wait...I don't know your name yet!"
When Hinata, who had never found a chance to respond and even had his face flushed with his intimate action, came back to her senses, how could she find Naruto? After standing in the cold wind, she looked around for a while, pursed her lips and lowered her head and gently stroked Naruto's coat and scarf. After a long time, her eyes gradually narrowed, and the blush faded slightly raised a bright smile on her cute little face, saying to herself.
"Well, forget it... I'll ask him again when I meet again when I return these clothes to him..."
"Ah? My father?" After taking a deep breath to restore his expression to whiteness and calmness, Hinata turned around and prepared to go home, but unexpectedly saw his father standing behind the door, only looking around... His careful and funny appearance was far from his father's serious image in his impression, which made Hinata unable to help but ask curiously. "What are you doing here...?"
"...Oh, Hinata... Well, cough, am I coming out to find you... Where did you go, your child? I haven't found anyone for so long, but your mother was frightened by you. She thought you were kidnapped by someone." Hizu, who noticed that he was out of control, coughed and covered up his embarrassing expression. While diverting the topic to attract attention, he walked out from behind the door and continued to look around, "Speaking of it, where is the person who sent you back... not here?"
"...Yes...I'm sorry, dad, I...I just want to get back the dead uncle Hicha... but I didn't expect to get lost and couldn't come back...Woo!" After a long period of cold, Hinata's grievance and fear that had been patient finally burst out. Her eyes were red and choked and threw herself into Hinata's arms and rubbed her gently as if she was coquettish. After a long time, she replied in a muffled voice, "He sent me here and went back...Hey, dad, I'll tell you! I met a good person tonight, he sent me home! He also invited me to eat... Well... Yes, I'm invited me to have a thing called ramen, it tastes so good! And, dad, look, these clothes on me were taken off my body for me to wear, and... "
Seeing the daughter in her arms slowly stop crying while she was asking, she raised her head and waved her little hands as if she was talking, trying to describe her little face, which was covered with tears as she encountered tonight, was gradually replaced by a smile, and there was no trace of harm.
This made Rizu breathe a sigh of relief, but at the same time, listening to his daughter's sincere praise and description of the "monster" she described like a hero, she couldn't help but start to reflect in her heart.
The Nine-Tailed Tsukiriki, Uzumaki Naruto, who had made him feel like he was facing a great enemy before... Is this little guy really a dangerous and terrible monster like the rumor in the village?
Chapter completed!