Hinata Hyuga (日向ヒナタ, Hyūga Hinata) is a member of the Hyuga Clan. She is on Team 8 with Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame, under the leadership of Kurenai Yuhi.
As a child, on her third birthday, she met her cousin, Neji. While she was somewhat shy in his presence, he told his father Hizashi that he considered her cute. Not long afterward, the Land of Lightning's head ninja tried to abduct her, before being stopped and subsequently killed by Hiashi. The Land of Lightning demanded compensation for this and Hizashi agreed to die in Hiashi's place.
At the start of the story, she is a shy girl who is the heiress of the Hyuga Clan. She is one of the rare female characters her age who didn't have a crush on Sasuke if not the only, but instead focused her attention on the totally oblivious Naruto.
Her father saw her as weaker than her sister, Hanabi Hyuga. When she was assigned to Kurenai Yuhi he told her that he was unconcerned that she might die on a mission, saying that her sister was more valuable than she was. Although she trained harder than her teammates, she gave up and thought herself as useless leading to many failures on missions.