Hello! Another update to Hinata and the Orange Juice? WHAT?
Well, you can thank DutchyPuppy (if he/she/person hasn't changed their penname since they left the review giving me this idea).
Also, on my profile poll, I asked what you guys wanted to see. And, with an overwhelming majority of 3 votes (legasp!), you guys said 'give us Hinata and druuugs'!
So here it is. Warning, the original HatOJ chapters were written years ago. Obviously, my writing style, humor and personality has changed since. You will notice that. But hey, we have all grown together (unless you don't age. Whatever).
Disclaimer: Don't try this at home, kids!

The preliminaries of the chuunin exams had been brutal. Especially Gaara and Lee's match.
Halfway through the match, the two boys had gotten into a disagreement on the meaning of life. Lee had tried to convince Gaara that 'hark work of smiling youthfulness of pure love and friendship and unequivocal devotion' was the way to go. Gaara had argued that, in fact, 'absorbing virgin blood into my sand and eating placenta' was the key to a successful life.

Hinata wondered if he was trying to be funny. Because, from what she knew, Gaara was a very funny but murderous person with a sort of inner party girl.
Or maybe that was just the juice.

Either way, the match ended with Gaara absorbing Lee's extravirgin blood into his sand and the green-clad genin having to have his mangled body rushed to the hospital.

Hinata, of course, had not been lucky enough to assist this match as she had been hospitalized after her failed match against Neji.
Thankfully for her, Naruto had given her a detailed description of Lee and Gaara's unbelievably nasty match. After having relayed his victory against Kiba with stunning accuracy, of course.

After a few bedridden days, Hinata hobbled back to the Hyuga compound, occasionally coughing her guts out.
Her father sighed when he saw her and shook his head in disappointment. Part of Hinata felt shameful for embarrassing the main branch... But her darker side was growling.
What? How was it her fault that Neji was such a douchy, violent asshole? The injustice of the Hyuga, of her cousin, of her father, of life in general, bit through her soul.
For the first time in her life, she wanted revenge. After all, she had come back from the brink of death and that type of dangerous thrill could not be topped easily and did leave her sort of horrified in an angry, bitter way. Kind of like biting into a sour orange.

Hinata froze.

She blinked.

She slammed her first into her palm. A tiny grin stretched her face.

Even though she had promised to train with Shino that afternoon, Hinata had to cancel, claiming to have accidentally reopened her wound.
Of course, she was just breaking into Ino's house to steal some of her 'sugar' again.

The girl carefully climbed through her friend's kitchen window and tiptoed to the cabinet above the sink. She bit her lip and slowly opened the cupboard, wincing when it made a loud creaking noise. Her eyes roamed the space inside the cabinet.

Her heart sank.
Empty.
No.
Where could it be?

"Hinata?"

The blue haired girl yelped and spun around, coming face to face with Ino, who was staring at her in shocked suspicion.
"I-I-I-I..." stammered Hinata, frantically twiddling her thumbs and desperately looking for a way out. Then, she remembered that she had an alibi. She quickly pulled out Sasuke Uchiha's selfie (which he had given her, autographed). "I c-came to give you this!"

Ino bounced over, her eyes gleaming.
"WOW! A signed photo of Sasuke-kun! Thanks! I can't believe that you climbed in through my kitchen window to give me this!" laughed the blond. "Liar."
Hinata jolted.
"I know why you came here..." muttered Ino. The girl walked across the kitchen in three long strides, bent over, opened a cabinet and pulled out a container of white power. "Some of it has been disppearing recently... I saw how Gaara and Sasuke acted that day. I may not be a genius, that's Shikamaru's job, but I can still do simple math!"

She pointed an accusing finger at Hinata.
"You have been stealing!" she announced, making the Hyuga cringe. "May I ask why you have returned for more?"
Hinata held back a sob.
"I-I-I w-wanted to g-get revenge on N-Neji..." she stammered helplessly.

Ino lowered her finger.
"OK."

The blond grabbed a clear plastic bag and poured a generous amount of white powder into it. She zipped the bag shut and handed it to Hinata, smiling. When she saw the dumbfounded look on the Hyuga's face, Ino grinned and giggled.
"Don't look at me like that! If you wanted some of my dad's special sugar you should have just asked!" the blond clapped the dark-haired girl on the back. "Plus, Neji is kinda douchy in a hot kind of way. Good luck."

Ino then exited the kitchen, leaving Hinata standing there, shell-shocked.

Hinata was not one to question miracles for too long, so she made her way back to her room in the Hyuga compound after buying a few oranges and started making some magic orange juice. Once she was done, she stepped back and wiped her brow.

"I did not know that you were a mad scientist."

Hinata jerked around, mentally shrieking at having two people sneak up on her on the same day.
She nearly melted of relief when she saw that it was 'only' Shino.
"Oh... I... I..."

Darn it.
She wasn't going to explain herself.
She handed him a glass of orange juice with a shy smile.

The bug-nin took it from her, his face stern. Sometimes, Hinata wondered what he could possibly be thinking.
In this case, Shino was actually weeping in happiness.
His first gift from a female... What a momentous occasion...

He gulped the juice down in one go. Hinata braced for impact.

After a few seconds, a few minutes of nothing, Hinata was starting to worry. Why wasn't Shino going funny? Was this even the right powder?

"It is delicious. Thank you..." muttered Shino suddenly, tilting his head to the side.

Hinata smiled shakily then straightened up when a knock sounded on her door.

"Hinata-sama? It's Neji. You told me to come see you. I hope that you are aware of how much of a pathetic failure at life you are." sang the male Hyuga's voice through the door.

The girl quickly opened her bedroom door and let her cousin in. The boy looked suspiciously at Shino.
"Wow. Hinata-sama, this is not appropriate behavior, even for you. Glad to see you cheating on that loser Naruto though. Uncle might actually be proud."
Hinata nodded and eyed the orange juice sitting on her table. Neji noticed it too.

"What is that?" he asked curiously.
Hinata faked a cry.
"Don't drink it! If you do, it will shame me more!"

Neji gave her a long, confused look. Then he smirked and downed the entire glass in one go.
"Hah." he taunted.

Suddenly, he twitched. Then, he smile kindly.

"You know, Hinata-sama, I don't actually hate you. I just bully you and try to destroy all the happiness in your life out of pure bitterness. You see, the real reason that I have a two foot... wide... pole shoved sideways up my ass is that I am scared. I have a massive inferiority complex that I mask by pretending that I actually have a superiority complex. But really, I am just a sad and lonely little boy who misses his daddy and has an awkward relationship with his uncle and I have a void in my life. That might also be due to the fact that my only real friend is Lee and that is just upsetting. Besides, I still treat him like crap because his happiness rains on my parade. Plus, I have this secret crush on Tenten since, like, forever, but she thinks you're so much cooler than me so I'm sadface."
Neji grinned and took a deep breath before continuing.
"Also, Tenten is so pretty and I thought that she was the prettiest thing in the world but I have been having some embarrassing doubts for a few weeks. You see, I saw that Gaara boy dirty dance and do that slutty stripper-move where he slid down the wall and since then I have been doubting my previously certain heterosexuality. I mean, redheads are just so my thing, you know? They're so sexy. Plus, Gaara is such a wonderful singer when he was singing the 'Jonin of Suna' and seeing him mash up Lee was so titillating to my sadistic mind. So I was thinking that I could... Wait, nah, nevermind, I like Tenten again. I will go tell her! It is the youthful thing to do!"

Neji fist punched the air and walked towards the window. He started climbing out of Hinata's room.
He accidentally squished an ant that was on the windowsill.

"NOOOOO MIFI!" shrieked Shino.

Suddenly, Neji was shoved out of the window and crashed at the bottom of the building in a pile of confusion.

"YOU WERE SO YOUNG! OH GOD!" Shino sobbed maniacally. "HOW WILL I TELL YOUR forty-three-thousand-seven-hundred-and-eighty-two SIBLINGS ABOUT THIS! YOU HAD CHILDREN ! OH GAWD!"

Hinata's jaw dropped as Shino collapsed onto the ground, hands thrown up in the air.
"YOU WILL BE MISSED MIFI!"
Shino stood up, dusted himself off and looked stoic again.

Hearing a grunt outside her window, Hinata remembered another one of her problems.
"Shino! We have to go after Neji!" she gasped. "He is going to embarrass himself and I might want revenge but I am not THAT cruel!"
Picking up her camera and dragging the completely silent Shino behind her, she climbed out of her window and ran after her cousin, who was now skipping across the Hyuga compound with a smile, telling random people how nice their hair was. It was all pretty harmless until he shouted at his pregnant third cousin twice-removed.

"You're FAT!"

Neji had never been slapped so hard in his life.

Before Hinata could catch up to him, however, he was already out of the compound, running towards his training grounds.

Unfortunately, a high Neji was a very fast runner. He made it to the spot where Tenten and Gai-sensei were waiting for him to train, just as his cousin and her teammate crashed through the trees behind him.

"Tenten! I have a confession!" shouted the male Hyuga, opening his arms wide, grinning.
Gai-sensei sighed.
"Neji, if this is gossip about the main branch again I swear I will-..."
"NO!" The boy interrupted. "Its YOUTHFUL!"
His three teammates eyed him with shock, horror and pure joy. Then, Tenten, spotting Hinata, gave Neji a weird look.

The boy marched up to his female teammate and, under the terrified stare of his cousin, got to his knee in front of Tenten.
"Oh Tenten! You are the sun to my moon. No... The Sun to my Earth! You are the branch to my fruit. The water to my cactus. The... The language to my humanity. The heart to my soul. The reason to my existence. The shirt to my toned chest. The butt to my boxers. The petal to my flower. The nightingale to my nightfall. The ghost in my dream. The angel of my mind. The senbon to my target. The shogi to my Shikamaru. The Naruto to my Sasuke..."
He ignored Hinata's annoyed 'hey!'.
"The Gaara to my wall. The Choji to my chips. The pink to my Sakura. The gargoyle to my mansion. The blond to my Ino. The bowl cut to my Lee. The rainbow to my sensei. The beauty in a sunrise. The glimmer of a kunai. A disgusting insect to my Shino. The bosom to my cousin..."
He ignored Hinata's annoyed 'hey!'.
"The alcohol to my Lady Tsunade. The sex to my Icha-Icha paradise. The smell to my Kiba. The leaf... To the core of my metaphysical village."

He bowed his head in reverence. Gai-sensei sobbed pathetically, clapping his hands.
"Bravo! Bravo, my new favorite student!" he cheered.
Tenten just sighed.
"That made absolutely no sense but I'm pretty sure some of it was offensive." she stated.

Neji's grin didn't dissipate.
"No! You misunderstand me, my dangerous beauty! I love you! Will you be the pencil to my paper? The scroll to my shinobi? The old age to my Hokage? The senpuku to my samur-..."
"OK! I get it!" laughed Tenten. She gave Neji a sly smile and knelt besides her teammate, giving him a pat on the shoulder. "Unfortunately, I happen to have a massive crush on your cousin, Hinata."

Neji's eyes buggered out of his skull and he turned to glare at a dumbfounded Hinata. Then, he turned back to his teammate with a trembling lip. He threw his hands up in the air.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Why? Why? Anyone but her! She has everything I want! NO!" he crumbled and sobbed.
Tenten rolled her eyes as the Hyuga started to literally roll on the floor, moaning.
"Neji, I was kidding. That was just a little vengeance for your cousin's sake. Actually, I do have feelings for you too-..."

Out of nowhere, a swarm of bugs picked Neji off the ground. Tenten gagged.
Shino appeared, stoic as ever.
"EXCUSE ME FOUL HUMAN. The fabulous Princess is passing through." he announced.

Everyone waited. And waited. But Shino didn't move an inch. Then, Tenten glanced down at a tiny beetle that was walking across the training grounds. Her eyebrow twitched.
"Are you kidding me? A bug? Put Neji down!"

When the Hyuga eventually made contact with the floor again, a look of pure fury directed at Hinata indicated that the orange juice's effects had worn off.
"You... You... You mean person!" he pointed an accusing finger at his cousin. "You... Did something to me!"
"Hey! I tried to stop you!" defended Hinata, shocking her relative. "Not my fault that internalizing your feelings all these years have led to you have such hilarious-... I mean!Negative side effects."

Neji grunted and tried to thug walk to his cousin but Tenten grabbed him by the waist, laughing.
"Run! Hinata, Run!" she smirked.
Hinata obeyed, dragging Shino behind her. Suddenly remembering the camera she had brought with her, she quickly snapped a picture over her shoulder and kept running for her life.

Once she was a safe distance away, she shook the photograph to develop it. She kept glancing over her shoulder to check that she wasn't being hunted down by her cousin. However, when she glanced down at the picture of Neji in Tenten's arms and saw the smile on his face, she knew that he wasn't going anywhere.

*sigh* NejiTen 5eva.
So yeah, everyone is happy! And drugged! (but no drugged Hinata this time sorry) And Hyuga side effects are obviously honesty related XD. Shino is just... sassy/dramatic mad when triggered with bugs.
Yet another conclusion to the story. Unless I get any more inspiration XD. I want to start writing more Hetalia fanfic (remember that long fic I promised? Hahaha nowhere near finished sorry), another GaaraxOC romance/angst/family/hurt/comfort/drama/humor fic set a year and half before the Chunin-exam arc in Suna, a Suna-villagers horror/family/adventure/psychological thriller/tragedy/romance?/angst/etc story where Sunagakure learns the true meaning of sacrifice for your village, and some random one shots mostly about Sand-Family because they rule.

Bye! Hope you liked the chapter!
XOXO ~~~ HimekoUchia