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HELLO YES HI. Ok. Ok. So I was thinking that NaruHina would be pretty much like how KDS is already. Hinata leaves home for a year for her witch’s training except she never had a mother to show her the ropes so the only thing she knows how to do is flying (rather haphazardly, much like Kiki does actually) and gardening, which is something that she and Hanabi continued to do after their mother died. 

She finds a city, settles down at the bakery run by Kurenai and Asuma, meets Naruto but she’s flustered because he’s so incredibly excited to meet an actual witch that he forgets that personal space is a thing. But he’s very kind and very outgoing and he ends up showing her around. They become really good friends- he’s her only friend for a while, actually, and she is someone new and different and exciting who he is incredibly curious of. Inevitably he’s drawn to her kindness and her gentleness and her ability to laugh with him and believe in him whenever he doubts himself.  

Hinata loves her new city but she’s also disquieted because she’s spent her whole life not knowing exactly her place in the world (Hiashi, unfortunately, never quite knew how to navigate the particulars of the world of witches and his discomfort was always felt very keenly by Hinata) and now especially, she wants to take this year to prove to her father and to herself that yes, she’s a witch and that meant also that she had something special and unique to share.

She becomes more and more discouraged when she tries her hand at fortune telling, flying, casting spells, etc and nothing works out. It gets to the point where she really does lose her powers as she loses faith in herself and she’s even more discouraged and upset because that was the one thing that was always unique about her that she could count on, despite the complications it caused between her and Hiashi. Naruto sees this and gently encourages her to stay with his family, who she’s never met,

for a few days as a break. 

She agrees after some persuasion from Kurenai and she meets Kushina and Minato who greet her with open arms and all the boisterous warmth and cheer that Hinata has never quite found at home (love, at home, was in the form of quiet teatime out on the porch and reading together in the living room and small but heartfelt smiles of pride). Kushina sweeps her up in a whirlwind of cooking and knitting and joking which have Hinata laughing so hard her cheeks ache and her stomach cramps. Minato invites her to help him and Naruto in their greenhouse which she accepts with pleasure and Naruto notes how the colour comes back in her cheeks and the sparkle appears in her eyes again as she cares for the various flowers and plants. (Minato, of course, does not miss his son’s unusually perceptive observation and informs Kushina. They spend the rest of the time making not so subtle winks and gestures towards Hinata at Naruto, of which Naruto always furiously blushes and mouths at them to knock it off. Hinata just thinks his family is wonderfully quirky.) 

Hinata finds a flora-based medicinal book wedged in between various gardening books, flips it open, and is hooked. She spends the rest of her time at the Uzumaki household learning how to combine various plants together to create medicinal balms, of which Kushina and Minato are both rather proficient at. Naruto doesn’t quite understand the appeal but he’s incredibly happy to see Hinata inspired again and he always keeps her company and watches her work. 

Hinata’s medicine is literally magic and her first couple of basic balms heals bruises and cuts in minutes. Kurenai introduces her to Sakura and Ino, frequent customers at the bakery and a doctor-in-training and florist respectively and they, plus Naruto, help Hinata set up her own small greenhouse at the back of the bakery where she lives. 

After a year, she decides to stay (though she does visit home and the way Hiashi’s eyes soften with pride and acceptance and care at her growth and confidence means the world to her; Hanabi of course also demands a detailed recounting of her year and at the end Hinata assures her that if she could make it through a year, Hanabi would definitely be fine) and her own greehouse/medicine shop is very successful. Naruto takes over caring for the plants and the greenhouse when demand for her balms and medicine runs high, and years later they get together (although everyone assumed they’ve always been together; Kushina throws her hands up and yells “FINALLY” the first time they went back to the Uzumaki household as a couple), marry, and have kids. 

Himawari is a natural flyer and Boruto invents and develops a biycycle-propelled aircraft so he can fly alongside her. Naruto and Hinata would spend evenings just watching them fly over the sea together. When it’s Hima’s time to go, she flies and settles close enough that Boruto can take his aircraft to visit her. 

This is honestly a pretty brief summary but it gets the main point of the idea. God I may have to write this. 

Adding on: 

Hinata wears the typical dark purple dress of a witch and she also wears a bright red bow that Hanabi gifted her, as a reminder of home and as encouragement for her to be more confident. Hinata always wears it though she’s always self-conscious of how bright the colour is. Naruto picks up on this and casually snags one of her extra ribbons from Kurenai. He wears it like a bow tie whenever he’s with her in solidarity. Kurenai takes to joking that they always match and that if ever she needed to find them, she’d just have to look out for the matching bows. 

Expanding on Naruto: Kushina is a witch herself, though her abilities lie more in her uncanny intuition regarding relationships of every kind. She can sense connections between people even if they’ve only met for a few moments and she’s quite in tune with their emotions and motivations. Her blood runs strong in Naruto and as a result, Naruto has many witch-like abilities but no real definitive powers like Hinata. It’s the main reason he’s so excited to meet her, when she first flies in. A witch his age! He never quite fit in with the regular crowd of teenage boys in the city but he instantly clicks with Hinata. 

Naruto’s witch-like tendencies also grants him a familiar, a tiny cat-sized fox who spent the first couple weeks of meeting Naruto running havoc around the house and laughing from hidden corners when Naruto got scolded for the mess. They eventually reach an understanding and the fox introduces himself as Kurama and becomes Naruto’s familiar and conscience, in a way. He’s forever running snarky and sarcastic commentary at Naruto, which only Naruto can hear due to the wtich’s blood in him. Everyone else just thinks he’s a really adorable and innocent fox. Kurama takes a liking to Hinata and is delighted at the material it gives him to tease Naruto about.