It was a new celebration in Konoha, and another festival was being held. Everyone was there. The remaining Uchiha, the Loud Bijuu, the Smart Forehead, the White Fang's son.
Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura, and Hatake Kakashi. A very odd team if there was one. They were all very good friends who all fought with each other pretty much 24/7. But, a good team nonetheless.
THAT was Team 7.
Other teams, 8, 10, and Gai (6).
Team Gai. The Cadet Genius, Hyuga Neji. The Green Beast, Rock Lee. The Weapons Master, TenTen. And, Konoha's Handsome Blue Beast, Might Gai. An even stranger team than Team Kakashi. Lee and Neji had their own special Taijutsu. Majoring in certain specific areas. TenTen was special in her ability to handle any kind of Weapon. The team was very special, and is very strong.
Team 10. The Bored Genius, the Blonde Kunoichi, the large Meat-Lover, and the Strong Smoker. This was Team Asuma. Each majoring in the famous InoShikaCho formation. Nara Shikamaru using the Shadow Bind Technique. Yamanaka Ino with her Mind Transfer Technique. And Akimichi Choji with his Human Meat Tank Jutsu. A very interesting team with their own strengths.
And Team 8. The Boy-Dog Duo. The Bug User. The Head Hyuga. And the Red-Eyed Female. Team Kurenai. The Survival Experts with areas of expertise. Inuzuka Kiba with Akamaru as the Tracking Experts. Aburame Shino with his special bugs. And Hyuga Hinata with the Byakugan. All excellent ninja. And definetely geniuses in the making. All with proper guidance, and self-respecting rule of course.
All excellent teams. But this story takes place during the celebration. The celebration right after a hard long fought war between Konoha and the Land of Clouds. Until, finally, another treaty was used and reached to end the war. Like said, everybody was there. Including the Hyuga Clan. This time they had attended. Mostly for the Celebration, and if you asked anyone from the Head or Cadet Branch, they would have said so too.
If you had asked Hiashi, he would have said the same thing. But, if he would have given you an honest answer, he would have said that he was making sure that he would be able to discern if the Land of Clouds were actually making a peace treaty, or if they were trying to do what they tried to do nine years ago.
If they were trying to take the secret of the Byakugan. That would mean that they would try to take another Head Hyuga again.
In other words, they would either take Hanabi or Hinata. Hiashi wasn't worried of Hanabi as much as Hinata. Hanabi might have been young, but she was strong with the Byakugan and was his favorite. He didn't want the Land of Clouds to succesfully take her. There would be no telling what might happen to her.
Hinata on the other hand, was deemed weak, worthless, and a failure to Hiashi. He only wanted to be protective, because she was the user of the Byakugan. No telling what might happen if they had that special Kekkai Genkai. He did not care what happened to Hinata.
Or at least, that would have been the case. Both Hanabi and Hinata were Hiashi's daughters. And whatever happened to either of them, was his responsibility. And he would feel terrible. But, nonetheless, he was still playing favorites. Hanabi in particular. But Hinata was starting to grow on him. Ever since she started leaving to practice with her comrades right after she prepared the tea and food for Hiashi and Neji during their training session.
So he was keeping a close eye on everything. Hanabi right beside him, and Hinata with her teammates. He expected her to be alright, even with the two very odd boys, who still made him feel a bit uneasy, but not in the least disrespectful of either two.
During the whole time that the parade went on, even after the shinobi ruler of the Land of Clouds was more than several meters away from them, he still kept his Byakugan on. Looking. Searching. Trying to find anything the teensiest bit suspicous. He found nothing. But, he still left it activated.
Kurenai was also looking out for anything. Hinata, since she did not remember anything, nor hear anything of what Neji said during the Chunin exams, (she passed out, remember?) was not trying to find anything, she was just trying to enjoy the parade and the festival.
Shino was just the slightest bit tensed, for he HAD heard what Neji said. Kiba was told after the Chunin exams. So, he was on the lookout as well. But, Shino's bugs and Akamaru didn't sense anything, so they relaxed just enough so that they would be able to enjoy the parade.
Tsunade had ordered several ANBU to keep an eye on anything. She had also heard about the kidnapping incident. But, she was actually fairly calm.
They wouldn't dare try anything again would they? She thought to herself. So, she stayed relaxed and ate a dango.
Then she gagged, remembering that she didn't like sweets and drank some tea instead, for Shizune had taken away Tsunade's sake for the day, so she wouldn't have the risk of being drunk for any part of the festival.