Title: Little Butterfly With Such Lovely Silver Wings
Summary: Alternate Universe. Sometimes, you wonder if it's worth it. Other times, you're certain that it is. Secretly, you think about how it has to be worth it because otherwise... well, it would mean you threw your life away and that's not something you want to think about, is it? ItaHina. NaruHina.
Disclaimer: Do not own.
Warning: No beta.
Pairings: Itachi/Hinata, Naruto/Hinata.
Date: 29/08/2013
Words: 700
Little Butterfly With Such Lovely Silver Wings
Hinata stood alone.
She stared out her window, gripping the window sill as she wonders—just wonders.
She is contemplating the world and her place in it.
She was born privileged into the Hyuuga Clan's main sector but she does not feel privileged.
All she feels is trapped.
Rules, regulations, laws, expectations—things she wouldn't want to enforce on to anyone because they're all enforced on to her.
She lives Inside. The people who live on the Outside aren't as lucky. Lucky would be the last thing anyone would describe the people who live on the Outside. They have to deal with harsh pollution, lack of resources, and bloodthirsty beasts. She doesn't have to deal with any of that. She gets to live safely and comfortably on the Inside.
She is privileged but she doesn't feel so.
Because people who are born on the Inside aren't allowed to leave.
The Outside is dangerous but what's even more dangerous is if her desire is found out—her desire to go to the Outside.
Little Butterfly With Such Lovely Silver Wings
Her mother didn't die in childbirth like the Hyuuga would rather everyone believe.
No.
Her mother died when she failed to escape.
It is blasphemy to want to leave the Inside.
There are so many people born in the Outside who are barely surviving and would do anything—absolutely anything to be allowed to even stay a single day in the Inside.
But her mother wanted to leave.
Her father found out... and after Hinabi, her little sister, was born... it was her father who killed her mother.
Hinata remembers how her father didn't want to kill her mother. She remembers how her father looked so tortured to have to lock her mother up and have her watched 24/7 while she was still pregnant. She remembers how her father turned completely cold and stoic after her mother died—killed by his hand.
Hinata also remembers how much she hates him.
Because he killed her mother even if he didn't want to. He chose to kill her. He could've let her go but because of his selfishness, he forced her to stay... but upon realizing that he couldn't make her stay, he killed her himself.
She hates him.
Little Butterfly With Such Lovely Silver Wings
She remembers the yellow hair, the bright blue eyes, the strange whisker marks on each cheek.
She remembers the cheerful, loud voice, the bright smiles, the orange jumpsuit.
She even remembers his name. Naruto.
He was born on the Inside but cast to the Outside.
It was something unheard of.
She recalls people gossiping that he was being punished before they were strictly hushed with a threat of death by the Inside's enforcers.
But deep, deep inside, she doesn't think it was punishment.
She thinks Naruto was freed.
Little Butterfly With Such Lovely Silver Wings
Will you force me to stay? Lock me up and throw away the key? Or will you kill me in cold blood upon realizing that I want to leave—to escape to the Outside? She wants to ask him but doesn't.
He is her fiancé. His name is Uchiha Itachi. He is one of the strongest, most skilled fighters. He is well-known to be able to single-handedly defeat the Outside's beasts. He is capable of defeating even the strongest of the Outside's beasts. He is gossiped as one of the most attractive men to be found anywhere. Rich, strong, and handsome—he is the sort of guy that nearly any girl would love to have.
Except her.
She does not love him.
She does not want him.
Spending time in his presence sickens her.
"I find you captivating," He compliments her while looking straight into her eyes.
And I find myself captive, she wants to say but doesn't.
"Thank you," she says instead as she takes a sip of tea. He is sitting across from her. They're in one of the Inside's most prestigious and expensive restaurants. It takes months to even reserve a table.
Hinata wants to leave.
Little Butterfly With Such Lovely Silver Wings
Next chapter: Escape
PatientlyWriting: I wasn't sure if I even wanted to upload this story but I figured might as well! =)