I looked around the room, surrounded by Hyuugas and Uchihas, I could feel the pressure begin to assemble on my bare shoulders. Looking at Aniki(older Brother), he kept looking at the man in front of him, probably the Hyuuga leader, he had a weird look on his face, I of course did not care because all I wanted to do is play.
"Sasuke-san, do you want to play with Hinata?" The man asked. A small girl crept from behind him, hiding her face, she then stepped from behind him and took a few steps forward. She looked straight into my eyes, the seem almost emotionless, but her face and actions told a different story. She had a blush across her face, and she played with her fingers, twirling then and then connecting them.
"Go on Hinata, play with the young Uchiha." He said as he lightly push the small girl in front of me. I could hear a small whimper coming from her as she tried to keep herself from falling down, but failed miserably, slowly getting up, and dusting the dirt off her pink-flowered kimono. She looked at me with her white lavender eyes, and quickly looked to the ground.
"ano… M-My name is Hyuuga Hinata." She whispered.
"I'm Uchiha Sasuke"
"Please follow me." she said a little louder. She walked past me and stopped only to signaling me to come with her, following her I began to talk.
"So, what are we going play, Hinata-chan?" I slid my hand in my hair, "ano… What ever you want to play Uchiha-san." She said.
She opened a very big door, a walked inside, I looked around and noticed that we where outside, everywhere I looked I only saw flowers and a few trees. "Is this a garden?" I asked, "Yes, this is were I come to have fun, Mother and I use to press flowers here, but sadly she died after Hanabi, my younger sister, was born." She answered, I felt a bit of pity for her "I am sorry to hear that." I said "It's okay, I still have Hanabi with me." She smiled at me and took my hand "Come, I want to show you something." She took me to a large tree, it's leaves were orange and red, and it had a kanji marked on the middle, but I could not read it. I put my hand on top of it, slowly touching the mark, but I was interrupted by a soft voice. "It means 'Family tree'" Hinata's hand touched mine, "Mother carved it there."
She began to climb the tree, it made me smile to see that she didn't want me to press flowers or play house like most girls. I also climbed the tree, by the time we reached the top it was already sunset. Hinata sat on the right branch, while I sat on the left, from where we were sitting we were able to see the entire village, as well as the sunset.
"Uchiha-san?"
"Call me Sasuke."
"O-Okay, Sasuke, Do you want to be my friend?"
I looked at, confused at what she said "Friends?"
"yes, I've never had a friend, I only had Neji-Niisan, but I'm unable to see him, because he is part of the branch family, and I from the main family. So I have no one to be around with."
"What about your father?"
There was a long silence before she spoke "He's to busy having meetings with the elders of the clan."
"oh." Was all I could say.
"So do you want to be my friend?" She asked once more.
"Sure, Hinata-Chan."
"Arigato."
There was a long moment of silence before I heard a soft hum coming from where Hinata was sitting. She then began to sing:
"Dango, Dango, Dango, Dango, Dango, Daikazoku"
(The Big Dumpling Family)
Her voice was soft and sweet.
"Dango, Dango, Dango, Dango, Dango, Daikazoku"
(The Big Dumpling Family)
Like chimes chiming when are struck by wind.
"Yancha na yaki dango yasashii an dango"
(The mischievous roasted dumpling, the gentle bean jam dumpling)
It made me feel strange, this song was funny in a way.
"Sukoshi yumemigachi na tsukimi dango"
(The moon viewing dumpling is a bit of a dreamer)
"Osumashi goma dango yotsugo kushi dango"
(The sesame dumpling always looks prim, the quadruplet spitted dumpling)
"Minna Minna awasete hyaku nin kazoku"
(put all of them together to make a family of one hundred)
I could feel the butterflies form in my stomach as she sang.
"Akachan dango ha itsumo shiawase no naka de"
(The baby dumpling is always in the midst of happiness)
"Toshiyori dango ha me wo hosometeru"
(The old dumpling narrows his eyes)
"Nayayoshi dango te wo tsunagi ookina marui wa ni naru yo"
(The friendly dumplings all hold hands and create a big round ring)
"Machi wo tsukuri dango boshi no ue minna de waraiau yo"
(They laugh together while making towns of the dumpling star)
"Usagi mo sora de te wo futtemiteru dekkai otsukisama"
(The rabbit wave from the big moon in the sky)
"Ureshii koto kanashii koto mo zenbu marumete"
(it takes all the happy and sad things and round them up)
"Dango, Dango, Dango, Dango, Dango, Daikazoku"
(The big dumpling family)
"Dango, Dango, Dango, Dango, Dango, Daikazoku"
(The big dumpling family)
She stopped singing.
"What song where you singing?" I asked.
"It's a lullaby, me and mother use to sing it together, I thought since we were friends, I could sing this song to you." She said.
"I see."
"Do you want to sing with me?" She asked, her voice seemed a bit louder but calm.
"Eh, No." I said, feeling really awkward at what she said.
"It's getting late, we should go." She said and began to climb down the tree, I followed as well.
As we went back to the room, we could hear them talk, Hinata's father and mine were arranging some kind of marriage.
"The Hyuga clan is willing to give our next heir, Hinata, to Itachi-san, under one condition."
"Condition?"
"Yes, as you may all know, Hinata isn't well suited to be heir, she is too weak and fragile, but her Byakugan is well devolved, so if her and Itachi are wanting to have children they will possess very powerful Byakugan and Sharingan. The condition is that after her 13 birthday, she will no longer wield the Hyuga name but the Uchiha and will be no longer be part of this family, then afterwards, Hanabi, Hinata's younger sister, will become the heir."
I slightly open the door, from were I was standing I could see the look of disgust on Otosan's face, like when I fail to do a simple jutsu, but this time it was different, his eyes seem to show more emotions than ever.
I looked at Hinata and grabbed her hand.
"S-Sasuke-san! What are you doing?" She asked
"Back to the garden… I forgot something!" I lied, I did not want her to hear them.
