Sorry about the wait again. I'm sorry I ended up redoing the story but at least I didn't do it well into the story. I'm not even doing any drastic changes, this will just make doing the story easier. Please tell me if I got some information wrong or spelled something wrong.
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CartoonistGirl6 (): Was this too long a wait for you? I didn't even make that many changes.
It all started when her mother died. The torment, the glares, the brow beatings. The emotional tare downs and verbal abuse. She gets it: she is a sad excuse for a thing and doesn't deserve the looks of her mother. She might not even continue to be heiress if she keeps up her weak attitude or show at least some type of assertiveness. " We will not be surpassed by the Uchiha, or even worse, the Ootori or Suou. (1) (2) I will not let you be the downfall of the Clan and embarrass us." She knows her dad has only been like this ever since her mother died, and she did try to be strong for them. How could she even be strong for herself when her Father barely acknowledged her existence; when ever he did it was to compare her to her little sister, or berate her. He didn't even see her as human for some reason, only a "thing." the last straw was when she over heard hi8m say one thing to the council "I wouldn't wish this burden on my worst enemy." She ran away not wanting to hear the rest.
She understood soon enough what she was when she had been informed of her mother's family background by her care taker, and one of her mom's best friends, only a few months before. She understood why her father seemed to hate her - she even hated herself for the monster she is- but never Hanabi. She cant help what she is.
She decided to do everyone a favor, even herself. She decided to finally make her Father, the Council, and herself happy altogether. The week before she emptied out a lot of one of the credit card accounts her dad had given her to use - no paper trail, no worries… right? A lot of stores were emptied of the clothes' of her size and were a little more her taste than what her dad made her wear. Several boxes of hair dye, contacts, glasses and cover-up were also bought. The hair dye an expensive long lasting brand, and the contacts only to change her eye color, the glasses would have to increase her eye vision since the contacts were a special brand that covered all of her eyes, including the pupil, so her vision was slightly impaired without both on. The cover-up for the weird six whisker marks on both her cheeks.
She packed her most valuable possessions, her new wardrobe, and only a few of her femininely things, into her black suit cases and headed off to the entrance to where she would trick one of her personal drivers would drop her off at one of her friends' house and they would drop her off at the airport. None of her friends agreed with what she was doing but they were behind her every step of the way, no matter how painful. It was easy to get out of the house since she sent all of the maids of the house on a wild goose chase and subdued her driver into believing she was staying at her friend's house for an extended period of time. No one even noticed her hair since she was wearing one of her favorite hats to cover her head. Plus, the family- Father and Hanabi-chan- were all out of town for the week and wouldn't be back for a couple of more days.
Before her departure from America her friends had a long and sad good-bye session, filled with tears and promises to reunite again one day. While on the plane in her new apparel, she looked at herself in the mirror. Short messy oddly colored hair contrasted with her pale skin, her green locks only reaching the nape of her neck and bangs framed her heart shaped face. Her once pale lavender now a sun-like golden yellow big eyes look around in mild alert at her 4"9 stature in her white tee that had green graphics and her long dark jeans and regular white tennis shoes to finish it off. She was really panicked about the whole situation. Do I look believable? Will I run out of products? How long can I keep this up? Does this cover-up my birthmarks well? All those questions ringing endlessly in her mind until she is pulled out of her trance by a loud obnoxious banging on the door.
"Spent enough time in there? Other people have to use the bathroom too," the feminine voice exclaimed in a rush. Hinata jumped at the voice and hurriedly fumbled with her glasses by the sink and sticking them on the collar of her shirt and cramming her eye drops and such into her pants pocket. While doing so she got lost by looking at her wrist to the thin yellow headband. One of her dearest friends had given it to her and it was one of her friend's treasures. She would always wear it to try an cover up the weird hair coloring she's always had on the top of her head (and was restlessly teased for) by pulling back her bangs over it. Sure she had more headbands but this one was her favorite. Hinata decided to pull her hair back too, the hair on the sides slightly over flowing and covering the head band while the only part visible of it on top. (She sort of looked like Ritsu from K-ON! If that helps at all.) Another loud rapping on the door brought hear back again.
"Hey! Open u-" The boy stopped mid-sentence to stare at Hinata for a few seconds before realizing what hewas doing and apologized.
"No, no. It was my fault- I took too long. Gomenasai." The boy seemed to blush at hearing Hinata's polite voice. Hinata gave the boy a slight bow before slipping out behind the boy and to her seat in first class. Hinata was really surprised at the boy, he seemed to have really good lungs and was only ten maybe. She couldn't really talk about age since she was thirteen herself, going into 9th grade. She knew starting back over in her home town was going to be a stretch but she was strong. She could handle it. The only thing she couldn't handle was the thought of the look on her little sister's face when they figured out she wasn't in America anymore. At least everyone would get what they wanted.
The only thing left behind was a video Hinata had made before she put on her get-up and left. She could only imagine the reactions. Hanabi, one of devastation, and her father, one of either irritation or mild satisfaction. He never seemed to have a smile on his face.
Pulling out her iPod and putting the whole thing on shuffle and could only imagine what kind of hell was going on at the mansion as she laid back in her chair and tried to relax. If the music didn't work she still had several books on hand.
Hiashi and Hanabi happened to come back from their trip early, Hanabi happened to miss Hinata a lot since they were gone for a little over a week. Hanabi practically begged Hinata to come but she denied, something about taking it easy for a while. Hiashi really did want her to come with them on their mini vacation before school starts. He just decided to give her her space. He guessed a little relaxation alone before school was good for her.
As they walked through the front door Hanabi was jumping up and down in excitement, planning on telling Hinata everything about the trip.
"Hey, Eliza! Where is Hinata? I cant wait to see her again?" The maid seemed confused at the question.
"What do you mean? Hinata left just this morning to go see her friends, wearing a ridiculous hat. You even told us yourself it was okay." Both Hanabi and Eliza turned to Hiashi at the last statement. Moments later everyone was searching Hinata's room and maids where calling everyone of her friends while Hiashi sent Hinabi to her room or at least to do something not there. In case Hinata really wasn't here he didn't want to break her heart. The only thing of interest left behind was a CD with a sticky note attached to it.
"watch this alone"
Hiashi kept the CD and rushed to his room right away. Putting in the CD into his DVD player practically biting his nails in anticipation. After a few moments the screen of his TV went from black to Hinata fixing a camera. She had a bittersweet look on her face. She was wearing her over sized grey cardigan and grey sweat pants.
"A…ano… Otou-sama (3) (4)…I…Gomenasai. I-I know I've never pulled a-anything like this and I'm sorry."
She looked to be on the verge of tears now but she kept on going.
"I guess if you look at it from m-my point of view you'll see that me running away wasn't t-totally s-selfish."
Tears started to fall.
"This is because I know how y-you're a-ashamed of me and my weak a-attitude. H-Hanabi can even be heiress now, like you've always wanted and how I know she really wants to be, deep down inside."
She was failing miserably to stop crying. She kept sniffling and both her eyes and nose were puffy. Seeing his daughter like this, Hiashi began to break down on the inside. What had he done?
"I a-also did this for m-myself. I've h-had enough of the torture y-you've put me through since Mom. The training was way t-too intense just to try and g-get stronger. Ever since then I h-havent even been your daughter; only a thing. I-I don't like this c-cursre any more than you d-do, but O-Otou-sama, I am still human. I have feelings too."
Hiashi's chest got heavier and heavier as the video went on. Hinata would also cry a little more evry minute she kept talking.
"Please tell Imouto (5) this has a-absolutely nothing to do with her… and that I-I love her. A lot. I did this so that I could f-find myself. Every time I try to tell you I-I might want to do something different with my life, you deny me and shut me out. I-Im not sure what I want to do y-yet but I would like to choose freely. I will find a way to write to you guys… if you even care that is."
At this point Hinata is sobbing so hard it's hard to make out what she's saying at some points.
"So… t-this is good bye t-then. I-I'm sorry it had to be this way. And also my friends didn't know anything about this so don't be too harsh with them."
And with that Hinata turned off the camera and Hiashi slumped to the floor in defeat. What had he done?
Sorry if it's kinda short and rushed. And sorry I didn't update my other stories, I'm having writers' block and you guys should know by now that I have a hard time starting stories. I stole a few ideas from Syn'ri and she will help me on a few parts. Thanks for reading, don't forget to vote!
(1) Ootori: someone from the anime/mange Ouran High Host Club
(2) Suou: also from Ouran High Host Club
(3) Outo: (I think that's how it's spelled) Japanese word for 'Father'
(4) -sama: a Japanese suffix to put on the end of someone's name showing great respect
(5) Imouto: Japanese word for 'Younger Sister'