Hinata sat in her room, quietly listening to her father scream at Hanabi for what felt like the thousandth time that evening. Her heart went out to her sister, but she was too afraid of her father to help out in anyway.

Hinata stood up quietly, as if not to disturb anything, and went to watch Hanabi's training from the shadows. She padded softly through the halls of the Hyuga House to reach the training grounds, where she situated herself in a dark corner to watch their evening training.

It seemed that Hinata's father was trying to teach Hanabi how to control her Chakra while she was using Byakugan. Hanabi sensed Hinata with her Byakugan and looked towards the space that Hinata occupied, nodding her head in a small hidden greeting. Hinata went to raise her hand in a small wave but stopped.

Hanabi, as well as Hinata, jumped when they heard their father yell "Look at me while I'm talking you!"

Hanabi turned to look at her father just as his fist connected with her face. Hinata saw Hanabi hit the ground hard, she seemed dazed and confused, and knowing that their father would yell at her if she lay there, awkwardly attempted scrambling to her feet. But her father was on Hanabi before she could get up, kicking her in the gut and sending her falling to the ground again. "You will not disobey me!" he yelled.

Hinata was shell-shocked; her father had slapped her and Hanabi multiple times, but never had he gone as far as he was now. Hanabi's cries of pain reached Hinata and she knew, that for the sake of her sister, she would have to face her biggest fear. "Run Hanabi!" Hinata screamed as she jumped to her feet and hurled herself at her father knocking him to the ground.

Hanabi hesitated for a moment before she took off, running full speed for the gates. Hinata breathed a sigh of relief, but only remembered where her father was a second too late.

He gripped her shoulders, hard, and threw her to the ground. Hinata could smell the strong reek of alcohol coming from her father, which in a different situation she would have noted.

He pinned her down underneath him, hands still on her shoulders, and threw a punch that threw her head to the right. Hinata tried to stand up, and her father took the opportunity to kick her in the stomach multiple times before he went for her in the head.

Hinata saw stars and was on the verge of throwing up when she heard Neji's voice from across the grounds. "Uncle!" she could hear the pleading in Neji's voice "Please!" He cried "Stop!"

Neji pulled her father off of Hinata while he spit insults at her "You are worthless!" he screamed at the top off his lungs "You are an embarrassment to the Hyuga Clan. You should just go off and die!"

Ah, there they were, the words that were never said but always implied. The words that haunted her dreams.

She never actually thought they would be spoken aloud, but there they were, hanging in the clouds of dust in front of her. Hinata felt numb, like an ice cold hand had reached out and grasped her entire body.

"Flee…" In the chaos of her mind that one thought broke through. Neji called her name but she ignored him, wanting nothing to stop her from escaping. She limped towards the gates and felt her body shudder as she coughed up blood, somewhere in the back of her mind she knew that was a bad sign, but frankly didn't care.

Hinata just kept walking, not caring where she was going, but then again she had nowhere to go. Shino was on an extended mission in the Sand and Kiba was on a month long vacation with his new wife. Hinata had scolded him for getting married at only 20 years old, but she knew he had found true love. And somehow in the midst of all that was happening, the thought of her teammates, her family, alive and happy, brought a sad smile to her face.

It was night time by the time she reached Konoha, and with only late night drunkards wandering the streets, she headed to an empty alley that had been a hangout for Team 8 in their early years, and found an old mattress laid out where they would sit and talk.

Hinata carefully lay down, avoiding her worst injuries as she tried to find a comfortable position to fall asleep in. The pounding in her head was unbearable and the thoughts and emotions that coursed through her brain didn't help, but eventually exhaustion swept over and she fell into a restless sleep

Hey! It's me Sting32! Hope you liked the first Chapter of my first Fanfiction. Please review and tell me what you think I need to make the story better. Also sorry if the punctuation with the 's is off I've never been good with words that need an s at the end 0_0 Thanks for Reading! :D