When we make it back to the training grounds, Naruto sees us and wave at us with a bright smile. "Nii-san and… Hinata? I didn't know you were coming?"

"I-I wanted t-to train with y-you two." Hinata stutters out a reply getting redder by the seconds. She also didn't get confused by Naruto calling me Nii-san because he has been doing it at the academy for the last month and everyone knows about it already.

"That's great! Nii-san is an excellent teacher. I became much stronger since we started training together." Naruto declared.

It's true, the getting stronger part, I still don't know if I'm a good teacher or not. Only his strength and chakra control is below mine. Everything else is… well, let's just say that his chakra reserve is already bigger than the normal Kage.

We also have a few spars too, I manage to win all of them thanks to my Taijutsu skill being a little better than his and because I cheated by using my Kekkei Genkai to create small chakra barrier underneath my clothes. As much as I care for Naruto, I also don't like losing.

Looking at Hinata, she looks like she's about to pass out so I give her a little help, "Continue on Naruto, you shouldn't be slacking off while training."

"Alright, nice to see you Hinata," Naruto said before going back to training.

"Come on Hinata, let's see what your skill level is at…" I turn to Hinata only to see her in a daze.

"Hinata?" I snap my fingers in front of her.

"Huh?" She looked at me before realizing what just happened and went bright red again.

"Good, now that I have your attention, let's get started." I got into a ready position.

"Umm… W-what are we going to do?" she asks not sure what to do since she didn't hear me before.

"We are going to have a mock battle."

"Eh? B-but…"

"Hinata, didn't you come here wanting to train?" I cut her off trying to force her into a corner so she goes along with it.

Hinata blushed again remembering how she got into this situation. After a while, she couldn't find any way out so she says "alright" and got into the starting stance of the Gentle Fist.

"I'll only be defending since we are trying to see how good your skills are so come at me when you are ready."

She looks hesitant at first but after a few moments of what I assume is her debating to herself, she finally tried to attack me. I say tried because she tripped on a small rock when she ran toward me.

"*Sigh, I know you don't have a good awareness of your surrounding but I didn't think it was this bad." I tease her as I help her up. She turns bright red in return.

"I guess we should start with something else for you instead of sparing. Come one, follow me." I grab her hand and led her away from the fighting grounds to a rock I use to meditate after a tough physical exercise. I find that doing it like that is the best way to improve my chakra reserve.

"I'm going to teach you ho…" I look back at Hinata to see that she is even redder than before and isn't paying attention. I guess that's Hinata for you. I lift her up and place her on the rock breaking her out of whatever states she was in.

"Hiro-kun?" she asks as she looked around in confusion. She didn't notice me bringing her here while she was busy being embarrassed. Still, I wanted to move this along so I pretend not to notice.

"Hinata," I said in a serious voice, catching her full attention. "I was being serious when I told you before that as a ninja, you need to pay more attention to your surroundings."

"W-wouldn't using the Byakugan solve that issue?" She asks

"Yes but that's only when you have it on. Unless you are going to keep it on all the time, you need to learn to keep track of your surroundings."

"Oh," She looked down a little dejected.

"Which is why I'm going to teach you how to meditate. It'll help you stay more aware of your surroundings." I said making her look at me again.

"Really?" She asks with hopeful eyes.

"Yes, now sit with your legs crossed and put this leaf on your forehead. You did it before right?" I said as I grab a leaf that was floating by. That leaf have great timing.

"Yea, Iruka-sensei have us do it at the beginning of this year."

"That'll make this easier than. I want you to close your eyes, stick the leaf to your forehead and count slowly in your head until you get to 100. If you think of anything else besides counting, you start over. If the leaf falls off, you start over. Got it?"

"I got it." Hinata answers as she proceeds to do what I said. While she does that, I continue my physical exercise nearby. A few hours later, I look at Hinata and see that she's still meditating. I go over to get her since it's time to leave.

"Hinata." I shook her since she is lost in her practice.

"Waa!" She screams in surprise before finding out that it's me that woke her up.

"Hiro-kun?" she looked at me questioning if I need anything.

"It's getting late. I and Naruto are going to get some Ramen. You want to come too?"

She looks like she wanted to come along but in the end, she refused. "I'm sorry but I should be getting home. Father might be worried about me." She said before stopping and looking like she wanted to ask something. I waited for her. Even if it's not much, if she can ask me without anyone prompting her, she might gain more confidence.

"Umm… can meditation really help me?" She finally asks after a few seconds passed.

I smile, "Yes, you won't see any results anytime soon but if you keep practicing, you'll notice that you can focus on a task better. Once you can count to 100, I'll tell you the next step so make sure to meditate every day from now on alright?"

"Yes." Hinata answer sounding a little more cheerful. As soon as she finished speaking, Ko appears next to her looking worried.

"Lady Hinata, there you are, I have been looking for you. It's time to head home already." Ko said as if he hadn't been watching the whole time.

Since Ko is here, I wave goodbye to her "See you at school tomorrow then Hinata."

"Bye." I hear Hinata said as I leave toward Naruto.