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Heartbroken? Open to all but heroscomeback)

Naruto-kun had been in Michi no Sato for a few days now, and while after their first talk they'd shared many more, it still felt awkward and painful to be around him.

No matter that he'd said, and she understood, that he needed time to adjust to being away from the fighting and other things that had occurred back home, her heart was still heavy.

She didn't know how to talk to anyone about it. Would it be proper? Who would understand? Could she do it?

Lost in thought, she sat down in the dojo of Mikoto-san's house with the intent to meditate and clear her head, but it wasn't really working after an hour.

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"Yes, please do." As someone who'd spent a bit of time around the Tenten of her time, Hinata did not miss the fact that the younger girl's hands were near her weapon scrolls as if she was waiting to attack. "I am still getting used to being here," she answered honestly, readying herself to move quickly to defend herself if need be. "However, I am finding that I enjoy speaking with everyone, so far."

"Yeah?" Her smile never left her face, even as she took in the subtle hints that Hinata was readying herself. She moved like Neji, but Tenten was counting (rather incorrectly) that this girl couldn't compare to Neji. She could handle it, if she needed to~

"I heard you talked to my teammate. What was that about?"

The reminder of how she'd arrived to Michi no Sato and the run-in with the younger version of Neji-nii-san hurt, but she was able to keep it from showing on her face.

"He came upon me as I just entered Michi no Sato from my timeline," Hinata said softly.

"Right, he said that." That smile stayed on her face, though it didn't match her tone at all. "So why'd you Main Family types decide to kill him, huh? He get too strong for your tastes? Or'd he start thinking he might be able to make something of himself without you?"

And her voice certainly wasn't shaking. Absolutely not.

Hinata gave up all pretense of staying seated while this...this..girl spoke to her about matters she had no idea about.

"I will say this only once, Tenten-san. I have never wished for my cousin's death. In my time, we are..." She frowned before glaring at the girl once more. "We are close. He is my family; sometimes I think he is more my family than my own father and I would have gladly given my own life so that he could be the one to show our grandfather how wrong he is for perpetuating the distance between the Main and the Branch families. You know nothing."

"And, if you think you know anything about me know, you are sorely mistaken."

Tenten took a reflexive step back, hand falling more obviously to her scroll as the other stood up. Measuring distances... staff-distance right now.

"Then why kill him? Maybe he's related to you by blood, but he's my teammate. Those bonds are more important than any of your clan crap. So why'd they kill him for you?"

There's no mistaking the venom in her voice as she lost all hints of her smile.

"Neither I nor the clan sent Neji-nii-san to die. I was protecting Naruto-kun in battle and Neji-nii-san took the blow to protect us both." The tears stung at her eyes, but she forced them down quickly. "If you are looking for someone to blame for the death of my most beloved cousin, you might thank Uchiha Obito and the others of the Akatsuki."

She activated her byakugan and stared at the other girl coldly. "Neji-nii-san was the only member of the clan who took a personal interest in helping me improve myself. He became more like a sibling to me than even my own sister. So, yes, he is your teammate, but he is my onii-san."

"He'd never do that unless someone made him!" Her fists clenched into the paper of her scrolls, dearly tempted to draw them as she glared up at the taller girl, fighting back her own emotions to try to stay calm. "He hates you, you and your whole clan! After everything you people did to him, you really expect that he'd do that on his own?!"

Her chin lifted, hardly intimidated by Hinata's Byakugan when she'd had Neji for a teammate for nearly two years. "What are you gonna do, huh?"

"You and Neji-kun are both idiots," Hinata replied. "He through ignorance and you through loyalty."

Hinata felt her feet and hands itch to move into the Gentle Fist stance, but held back. Tenten-san shouldn't be attacked for doing what Hinata herself would do for Neji-nii-san. "I will let you know something, Tenten-san, that you may share with your Neji-kun. My uncle gave up his life to keep my father safe, by his own will. My father was willing to sacrifice himself to protect me. But so was my uncle, and to protect the clan. Since you are not a member of the Hyuuga clan, you probably don't understand what that means, but Neji will."

"My father told that to Neji-nii-san and then saw to it that Neji-nii-san was accepted by the rest of the clan, even though he was a member of the Branch family. In fact, Neji-nii-san was more important that I was to him." She stepped closer to Tenten, using her greater height and stature to advantage, as she'd seen Tsunade-sama do on more than one occasion. "It may be my fault that Neji-kun knows that he is going to die, but it is not mine that Neji-nii-san does. I was willing to die to keep Neji-nii-san and Naruto-kun safe from harm. Only they mattered to me, but he pushed me out of the way to keep me safe. For some reason, I believe he loves me, as I do him."

"So, you will now leave me alone." The 'or else' wasn't necessary.

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She bristled at the insult, but held her tongue, letting the other give her speech. All lies -- Neji would say they were conveniences of the Head Family, wouldn't he?

When Hinata stepped forward, Tenten retreated, keeping her same distance in case she needed it, scowling up at the older kunoichi, fingers tightening against the paper. "Where's the proof that you're not just making it all up? Or that your father isn't doing it? You've got to admit that it's all really convenient. A way to cage him in further. Do you have any idea how much he suffers over all this fate crap?!"

She was shouting now, her hands clenched into fists at her sides as she glared up. "I don't need to be part of your stupid clan to know what it's like to lose people, Hinata-sama! And he's not dying for you or any other stupid Hyuuga, not if I have anything to say about it!"

Her jaw clenched as she kept backing up, toward the door, shaking her head. "So you stay away from him, got it?!"

Hinata sighed as the younger girl spewed forth the lies Neji-nii-san had told himself over the years in his grief. There was no point in continuing in the discussion with her since she was so inclined to believe whatever she wanted.

"If I had anything to say with it, no one would die," she said monotonously. "Do as you will. I have no intention of being around Neji-kun."

"Neji changed after the exams."

He was quiet, definitive, and standing there. Who knew how long he was listening in for, but Tenten was someone he... Tolerated. He didn't want her to continue like this, though at the moment he wasn't entirely sure of why.

"He doesn't glare at Hinata anymore. The older him refers to her with respect and dignity, and it's not forced at all. It's not unthinkable that he would care for her after something changed his views after the chuunin exams."

She flinched at the new voice, stopping short as her head jerked around to meet Sasuke's eyes. The Uchiha probably couldn't miss the frustrated tears in the corners of her eyes, but she ignored them, almost immediately returning her attention to Hinata. She's not about to expose her back to the Hyuuga heiress, after all.

"It doesn't matter," she bit out, fists clenching into the paper of her scroll again. "Neji deserves better than dying for someone like her or anyone else in that clan. He's stronger than anyone, you'll see! He's a genius... like Lee..."

She kept backing up, trying to make her escape, gaze flicking between the two other shinobi.

Hinata was grateful for the young Uchiha Sasuke-kun's assistance. "Thank you very much, Sasuke-kun, but Tenten-san is allowed to believe whatever she wishes about things she doesn't know and doesn't have to relive every time she closes her eyes."

"My Neji-nii-san is a genius, and so is Lee-san, but I have never lied." She turned cold, dead white eyes on Tenten. "Not even to myself. Nor would I start now."

"... We just know he died protecting her, don't we? We don't know why he died other than that. Or what else happens in the future."

There were some things he knew, and thinking about them made his expression even more serious than it was before. But, that wasn't what he was talking about then. He was talking about Neji.

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Her breath came hard through her nose as her lip firmed, shaking her head as if to block it all out. "No... We don't know what happens in the future, and I'm going to make sure this one never happens." She released her scroll to point, a harsh, slashing motion through the air, trying to pretend like she wasn't starting to shake. "All that fate stuff is crap, and I'm not letting you bind him to it by saying that he'll die for someone like you. I watch his back, I helped him perfect the Kaiten, he's my family and you're not taking that from me here or in any future where I'm alive!"

"Shut up," Hinata said, tears welling up in her eyes. "You will shut up. I know what happens because I WAS THERE, so don't you tell me what will and won't happen." She could feel her body begin to shake in rage and her chakra began gathering almost unbidden. "If you can prevent it from happening, please do. Otherwise, leave me alone."

At that point he remained silent, not finding it his place to interfere further. Hinata was doing a surprisingly good job of holding her own... Something he never would have expected out of the Hyuuga Heiress. Neji wasn't the only one to have changed, apparently...

"Gladly." It's almost a snarl then as she retreated further, then sprinted up the stairs to gather what possessions she'd started keeping for herself in that room there.

Hinata slumped to the floor, landing on her knees with her legs splayed out behind her. She'd never maintained that amount of coldness, anger, in her entire life. At first, it had felt wonderful to say what she thought, to get all of that sorrow and guilt and anger off of her chest, but it didn't last long. Not when the sight of Neji-nii-san dying kept reappearing before her.

She had no idea how other people had arguments that lasted so long. "Thank you for trying to help me, Uchiha Sasuke-kun," she said, tears finally falling as she continued to sit on the cold floor. "I am sure that nothing that anyone says will change her mind, nor that of Neji-kun. Not until they are ready."

"... Like how it's hard to believe that I'll be a traitor."

He sighed, shaking his head and watching her for a moment. It didn't take long for him to leave completely, thinking that it'd be better to just leave Hinata be.

When she was completely alone, she covered her face up with her hands and sobbed until it felt like she would drown in her own tears.

She had a backpack she'd been slowly filling with travel supplies for when she and her Future Self had been talking about going to the different villages for starting the iron trade... most of her clothes she managed to shove in there, what she wasn't wearing. Once everything was packed except an extra cloak she couldn't manage to shove in and didn't really have much use for anyway, she moved cautiously back through the house to try to find the Uchiha.

Sasuke was in his room by then, sitting on his bed and frowning at the wall in front of him as he just thought everything over. But, he wasn't completely out of it and looked at the door when he heard footsteps... And, sure enough, there was Tenten.

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