Hinata's Resolve [17]

--POV Hinata--

"Say ah." I hear Raiden say as he carefully puts a red bean bun he's holding up to my mouth.

Hearing this starts to blush as I take a big bite out of the delicious food.

"Hehe" I giggle, bashfully chewing on the red bean bun that I just took a big bite of.

Raiden seeing half of his red bean bun gone starts to pout.

Getting a blush on my face I start to hug my mum whose lap I'm sitting on as the three of us are having a picnic right now.

"Oh my sweet little Hinata, is that Raiden boy trying to take you away from me again." She cooes at me making me blush even more huggin her chest.

Mother takes every chance she gets to tease me after father said that me marrying Raiden wasn't a bad thing.

"I'm gonna take Hinata away from you Himawari-san!" I hear Raiden say this in a flaunting tone to my mother making me want to shrink down even more.

My mother hearing this started to giggle and ruffled Raiden's hair up.

The atmosphere was quite lovely and it stayed that way until mother had to go as me and my Raiden with the agreement of both of our clans decided to have us train together.

Mother has said that I will probably get married to Raiden when I'm older and that my sibling when they are born this year will take over as the clan heir which is nice. I don't like sparring with Neji too much as I'm scared to hurt him, it's good that he does his best to pull his punches though.

"Lets go to the training ground Hinata, lets start training!" I hear him say cheerfully as he grabs my hand and starts to head out to the Shimura compound.

--POV Raiden--

There are two days till my new subordinates will arrive which is very good as I want to train them up as much as I can. I'm not sure at what progression they are currently at in terms of their skills but I have to assume that they are still new as not every kid has the will to train as it's quite "boring" at times.

Right now I'm at the training grounds with Hinata where we are going to be training together for the first time.

Crazy right?

Danzo told me that talks about an arranged marriage between Hinata are due to happen soon after a bit more negotiations go through as I assume Danzo wants to get some Hyugas into his root, which I mean I can't blame the guy, those eyes are amazing for combat and scouting purposes.

Today we are meant to spar first and then practise our chakra control as we need to improve on this more.

For Hinata it's because she needs it for her gentle fist style and for me I'm trying to learn the rasengan.

Walking up to the circle I call Hinata over so we can have a taijutsu spar.

"Hinata lets start our spar now!" I call out as it seems she is currently day dreaming right now

Hinata snapping out of her trance gently walks up to the circle.

"This will have the basic rules with the winner is decided when the opponent is out of commission, out of bounds or forfeits okay?" I tell her explaining the rules.

Hinata nodding and starts to get into her stance.

After a few seconds of silence I started the spar with a small dash forward and a jab.

Hinata quickly reacting dodges to the left as she tries to make up more space. Not letting her get away I dash forward another time and go for a punch at her left side.

My punch inching closer it suddenly gets slapped away by a hand as when I countered another of Hinata's hands defensively positioned themselves.

This went on back and forth for a few more minutes untill I stopped the spar a realising that Hinata probably wont counter attack me at all no matter how many openings I give her.

"Hinata come over here." I say gently as I proceed to sit down on the grassy surface.

Complying, Hinata quickly comes over and sits next to me.

"Why aren't you attacking me back?" I question.

With a red face Hinata looks away fiddling with her fingers.

'Cute.'

"I don't want to hurt you Rei." She says using my nickname.

'My heart help.' I squeal inside.

Sighing on the outside as I decide to use the strongest jutsu in Naruto.

'I didn't want to end up using this forbidden jutsu, but if I must.' I think to myself solemnly.

"Hinata do you know how this world works?" I question her as she turns her head to the side in a questioning manner making a cute expression.

"In this world it is a dog kill dog world. Not needing to hurt someone is only a luxury possible for the strong as they could just knock out or intimidate someone."

"Hinata you're someone special who has the potential to be strong and with the will to protect others. To defeat someone, you don't always need to hurt them but to have this luxury you must be strong enough to defend the people you love and yourself." I tell her making her eyes widen.

"If someone like me were in a pickle right now and needed someone to help them as I could die, would you be strong enough to protect me?" I ask making her look down at the dirt with a frown.

After my little speech I decided to go on with training as for the rest of the day we worked as hard as we could training our chakra control and physical bodies to our limit.

'Hopefully she keeps up her training, while putting in the effort to get stronger.'

We ended up deciding to spar next time we train together.

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[A/N: Early chapter because I'm impatient]