"Dear Diary,
This is the first and most definitely not the last entry that I plan to put in you since my life problems will have you filled to the brim by the end of the week forcing me to buy more. I probably could start a collection about the life of a miserable fiancée and future wife to someone with power and influence. See I would have been living the best part of my twenties enjoying the traveling that my father would often do for his business ventures, which turned out to be dupes and complete failures that we or rather my father was force to file bankruptcy that made us the laughing stock of the prominent citizens of Konoha.
Which leads up to my current situation as I just recently learn that before I turned the tender age of eighteen that my father had legitimate gave me away to one of his trusted "business partners" who had a son around the exact age as I was. Now you are probably thinking I am a guaranteed money loan for my dad and I would look you dead in the eyes and say…you are correct! Yes, it turns out that my deadbeat father was so desperate to get his hands on money that he gave me away all while receiving installments of monetary value. So I am going to end this journal entry with these final words for today: Being a kid so totally sucks at some times."
Sincerely,
A trapped Red Sparrow
A deep sigh escaped the tan face of a twenty-year-old woman who had closed the cover of her black journal that had a golden bird etched into the cover fold and produced a small silver key and stuck it in the keyhole to lock the journal contents.
She placed her tan fingers of her right hand on the silver handle and gave a gentle tug and the drawer popped open while she used her left hand to pick up the journal and placed it in the drawer and closed it back without hesitating.
Three knocks came at her wooden door, as only she knew who had that distinctive knock from all the others as she pushed the chair from underneath her lower region while standing to her feet.
The scrapping of the wood against the carpet was silenced so the person outside of the door did not know whether or not she was going to answer the door as she picked up her feet out of a habit her mother taught her whenever she would have to rely on stealth.
The girl brought her hand to the golden knob that served as the last barrier between her and this person and with no type of hesitation what so ever, she clicked it open to reveal…
A young woman with rather long indigo color hair that seem to fit her pale colored skin tone as her white pupils not only added innocence to her and not only but they showed her status as one of the prominent high class citizen but what set her apart from majority of the uppity wealth is that she has a kind heart.
"Hey there, Hinata, what brings you by my parents home at this time?" I greeted her in my traditional manner that I do to everyone else except with a little more…what's the word for it…oh sarcasm.
"This," she said as she shifted her weight to her left leg and reached in her back pocket to remove a white envelope with a distinctive golden seal with two red ribbons hanging from both sides.
Hinata saw that the girl in front of her eyes fell on the envelope that had her name written in elaborate cursive writing besides a capitalized "to" and a semicolon.
"I don't want that letter, Hina-chan." The girl spoke to her after allowing her eyes to meet back up with her initial eye level to show that she was really disinterested in what it had to have written in it.
"Akane-chan, you got to come, if not for your sake do it for me?" Hinata asked as her innocent look was slowly coaxing her into grabbing the envelope from her pale hand.
"Who sent you to try and convince me to go to that affair because they must have been pretty desperate if they sent you…" Akane voice trailed when she heard footsteps coming up towards where she was standing with Hinata.
Akane quickly grabbed her forearm and dragged the unsuspecting Hinata inside of her room as something was telling her that they would have need the conversation to continue in the quietness of her own private space.
"I see you did not clean up your room this morning." Hinata announced to her friend as she took a seat on the messy bed covers that was called Akane's bed.
Akane turned her wooden chair that was pulled out from her desk and sat with her arms folded across the back of the chair as she looked at Hinata with that envelope in her hand.
"Back to the previous question that I asked, did he send you here to come and get me? I promise you I won't get mad at you if he forced you." Akane was planning to get to the bottom of why Hinata was standing outside of her room with an envelope she know she trashed every time she saw it.
Hinata had looked around as if to see if anyone could hear what she was about to say next, "I was on my way to meet up with Naruto and he was there as well and insisted that I give it to you since he knew that you and I are close."
"I knew it," Akane mumbled when she found a new reason to go to whatever the white envelope had written on it.
"Wait…are you really going to go to this or are you going to rip it up and throw it in the trash like the other ones?" Hinata's voice was unsteady and even pointed at her rather full bin of white envelopes for her proof.
"You have my word on this and matter of fact you can be my date to the thing." Akane stated as she placed the envelope in front of her and slipped her fingers through the cracks of the white paper and opened it.
"Whoever wrote this has good handwriting though," Akane spoke with a serious tone in her voice as it all seem the same to her but a plan was formulating in her head as soon as she seen who sent her the invite.
"Oh I will be definitely going to this event and besides I saw the perfect dress that would so totally fit you…" Akane responded as a smirk that suggested more than what she was showing as Hinata saw the twinkle in her eye that only mean trouble.
"Yes…yes…are you doing anything today?" Akane inquired about Hinata's agenda for the rest of the day.
Before Hinata could even answer Akane answered the question for her, "I mean after all you really don't have anything plan since your father has your personal stylist on her job right now?"
Hinata eyes went slightly wide as she wondered how did Akane catch wind about her father hiring a stylist for her whenever she would attend any high standard social party. "I won't even ask how do you know that but I was going to say I did not have anything to do for today"
"Good, the sooner we start the sooner we can get finish!" Akane's tone suddenly changes from annoyed to ecstatic which sort of scared Hinata a little as when Akane change tones then something was going to happen.
"I still don't see why you had to send my poor Hina-chan to go see Akane-chan?" A young man with short blonde spiky hair questioned after pulling out a green frog wallet and produces some golden coins and placed it on the wooden table towards a man around his age with short navy blue hair whose style resembled a cockatoo's head.
"Since when did Hinata become yours, Naruto? Besides if I had sent you then she would have known off the back that I had sent you besides you did not visit your onee-chan in a while, haven't you?" the man stated after finishing up the rest of green tea in a ceramic tea cup before placing it back wooden table.
"Well Sasuke, if she did not have an overprotective fiancée, who only allow men a half of hour with his future wife who absolutely hate his guts, while he is sitting in the room then yeah I would just keep doing what I am doing." The boy name Naruto responded back with some of his words whispered so it would not cause a ruckus in the restaurant that was probably filled with paparazzi.
The man by the name of Sasuke rose to his feet after hearing what Naruto had just told him a couple of seconds ago.
"Aw did I hurt the teme feelings?" Naruto teased after following suit by standing up to his feet when Sasuke dug in his pocket and placed three bills on the table for the tip before the duo exited the restaurant together.
"Trust me dobe, you and any other person who have that thought in their head is completely wrong." Sasuke countered what Naruto said as they were walking down gray asphalt of the concrete sidewalk.
"So are you going to make it official at the party tonight?" Naruto inquired about what Sasuke plan to do for tonight at his family hosted party.
"Dobe, you know that my family image is going to be everywhere but now that you bring that up I should do it after all sooner or later someone is going to find out." Sasuke answered as he placed his hands in his pockets as they wait to crossover to the massive four-story parking lot that held their respective cars.
"Just remember that Akane has both a bark and a bite…trust me, I saw it happen before my eyes more times than I thought I would like to see." Naruto gave fair warning to Sasuke when they crossed the road before they entered the parking lot.
Hinata glanced over as she saw that Akane had her elbow on the in-door handle on it with her chin propped up on her right hand and she seemed to have been in a deep thought.
"Um, Akane?" Hinata asked after pulling up to a red light traffic stop when she turned to see that she still did not here her.
So she leaned over and touched her arm to grab her attention, which worked as she saw Akane had turned her head to see Hinata's look of concern on her face.
"Are you alright?" Akane could hear the concern in her tone when she asked her when she noticed that the light had turned green.
"The light is green, Hinata." Akane pointed out when she saw the shock expression that Hinata was known for as she pressed her foot down on the accelerator.
"The store is just about eight blocks from here, you go straight for three blocks and turn right at the fourth one and after two more blocks turn left and you should see it after going down three and half blocks." Akane gave Hinata directions towards the boutique as she decided to go against a nap just in case she drives down the wrong street.
"Do you think I should runaway from my responsibilities?" Akane asked Hinata as she could no longer find the answer to that question for herself.
Hinata knew something was bothering her for the moment she had found out from Akane that her father forced her into an arrange marriage that she did not want to be in to no other than a well known woman's man.
"Since when did you run away from your problem, Akane? I mean everyone who knows you like I do know that you are the main one handling your problems head on." Hinata hoped that her sincere words would resonate to her so she could get out of her slump.
"Hina-chan," Akane's voice caught her attention, which she brief broke her view from the street way to see Akane with a toothy grin that rivaled Naruto to some standards as it brought a smile to her face, "Thanks"
Hinata nodded her head as she could not help but feel accomplished for waking Akane up from her small phase of depression that is starting to happen more and more ever since that announcement her father gave to her when she had turned eighteen.
The drive was no longer quiet as the car was filled with noise from the radio that Akane had turned to after waiting for them to make a turn.
It seemed as if she had just turned it on when she turned it off and nearly scared Hinata when she saw her jumping up and down in the passenger seat as she pointed at something.
"There it is! There is the little boutique right there!" Akane proclaimed as her index finger pointed at the little white shop that had something written in elaborate writing making it harder to read if you are far away.
Hinata let out a sigh of relief, as she was glad that they were not in an accident due to Akane's sudden change of mood when she found a decent parking spot in front of the store.
Sasuke produce a set of keys from his pocket and press the button that resemble an open lock and the sound of his alarm being released allowed him to open his driver door in an upward fashion instead of the traditional horizontal fashion.
After getting comfortable in his leather seat he reached up to pull the door back down to lock and closed it. He placed the key into the ignition as the hum of the V8 engine sent a gentle buzz throughout the car when he checked his blind spots before shifting the sports car in reverse.
The parking in the parking lot was barely empty and was better than parking in front of Ichiraku's, where everyone would have known that he was there on a casual lunch with a friend.
'I swear that dobe has a brain… sometimes.' He thought as he pulled up to the machine and fed it his ticket stub, which caused the yellow and black tape on the guardrail to lift up allowing him to pass through without his car being dented or scratched up.
"Well Sasuke, if she did not have an overprotective fiancée, who only allow men a half of hour with his future wife who absolutely hate his guts, while he is sitting in the room then yeah I would just keep doing what I am doing." Naruto's words ran in his head as if they were engraved into his cerebrum.
Deep down something inside of him agreed with the hyperactive blonde haired idiot but then again his pride would not allow him to admit defeat…especially not to her nonetheless.
A buzzing noise was heard before he reached over to crank up his radio and saw that his cell phone was vibrating against the vertical navy blue stripe leather suit and grabbed it in his hands and without looking at the caller ID.
"This is Uchiha, Sasuke," He made it a point to announce his last name first before his first name after all it did carry certain privileges over people.
"Mom and Dad said they need to go over the last minute details over the party for tonight…after all it is your little coming of age party." A familiar masculine voice spoke through the receiver of there phone as Sasuke saw he had the go ahead to pull onto the street way.
He held the phone away from his mouth so he could let out a frustrated sigh before bringing it back to his ear, "Alright I will be there in less than forty to forty-five minutes, so tell them to just have the books on the desk when I get there?"
"Whatever you say…after all you are calling the shots like I had to do when it was my coming out party little brother." The voice spoke in a nonchalant tone except when it came when he said little brother it was as if he had won a race or something.
'What can you expect, when you the older siblings you make your younger siblings hate/love you.' He thought to himself when his older brother brought him out of his daze stupor.
"Well that is all I call to tell you about since mom and dad claim they are so busy in making back plans just incase if your undies show at the party. See you at home little brother." He used little brother again but this time as a cherry to top the insult of the icing on the cupcake.
"Alright than see you when I get home." And with that they synch clicked off at the same time while Sasuke threw his cell back on the passenger seat of his car.