War Paint

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Title: War Paint
Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Hinata, Kankuro
Prompt: 47. Paint
Rating: G
Summary: Sometimes, it’s easier to be yourself when you can hide behind the paint.




Kankuro eyed the Hyuuga heiress, his mind processing the words that he knew he could not have possibly heard. “Say that again.”

“I would like to become your apprentice, Kankuro-sensei,” Hinata said meekly.

“Alright, this is my morbid curiosity speaking. Why?”

“To change myself.”

***

The rumors about what Hinata was doing spread quickly, and rumors are prone to do. It was no secret that the Hyuuga girl had left to train herself, but how she was training and where she was doing this was something much debated in Konoha.

The most disregarded rumor was that the girl apprenticed to the Kazekage’s brother, the brash, loud female in the face paint and black, was actually Hyuuga Hinata. Which was, of course, ridiculous. Hinata was quiet and shy, and this young puppet master was anything but.

There was no way they could be the same girl.

***

“It’s… liberating,” Hinata said, wiping the face paint off. “There aren’t any expectations. I can be whoever I want. I can be… myself. Whoever that is.”

“Great, isn’t it?” Kankuro said with a smirk.

“Yes.”