"Hi! You have reached the voicemail of-"

The recording was violently cut off as the phone was slammed back onto the receiver. Slim fingers dialed the numbers for Sakura Harano's cell phone. Hinata waited with bated breath as the phone started ringing.

'Please, please pick up.' Hinata thought.

"Hi! You have reached the voicemail of Sak-"

Hinata slammed the phone on the receiver once more before getting up off the couch. She paced the living room for a few seconds that felt like hours to her before sitting back on the couch. As she was about to pick up the phone, the phone gave a shrill ring startling her for a few seconds before she quickly picked it up.

"Hello?" she asked breathless.

"Hinata," Neji's voice said over the phone his voice laced with concern and worry as well as with anger, "I heard you were-"

"I'm sorry Neji! I can't talk right now." Hinata said cutting Neji off. She quickly hanged up the phone as Neji protested.

Hinata stared aghast at the phone. 'He's going to kill me the next time he sees me. He's probably on his way over.' Hinata played with her fingers anxiously. She needed to talk to Sakura as quickly as possible. If she didn't, these crazy emotions rioting around would make her do crazier things outside of her norm. Maybe it was because of what happened to her today. But she shouldn't have been so easily riled up.

The phone rang. Hinata debated on whether she should pick up the phone, afraid that Neji would be on the other end with a prepared diatribe. She hesitated for a few more seconds before picking up the phone.

"Hello?" She asked hesitantly.

"Hinata what's wrong? You've been calling me for the past half hour and then Neji just called absolutely livid. What's going on? And were u really in a-"

"Sakura! You called! I have the most amazing thing to tell you! It's really good news!" Hinata said excitedly into the phone.

"What?" Sakura asked shocked.

"Well today I almost got run over-"

"That's not good news, Hinata."

"-and I was saved! I was saved by the love of my life! You should have been there it was the most beautiful thing ever." Hinata finished wistfully.

On the other end of the line, Sakura gave a worried frown. Maybe she had a concussion… "Hinata what happened?"

"He saved my life. He's my knight in shining armor, my angel coming to give me salvation. He's the one, Sakura. I can feel it!"

"Hinata! What the fuck happened to you? You didn't join another cult did you?" Sakura asked. She was getting slightly scared. Hinata never acted so…like this before. She couldn't even find a word to describe it.

"It wasn't a cult!"

She wasn't being serious was she?

"And no I did not join any cults! Nor will I ever!"

Sakura gave a tired sigh. She had just come from working a coworker's shift and she just wanted to go home and sleep. She didn't want to deal with an irrational Hinata, obviously this Hinata's emotion were beyond frazzled even more so than when she was emotional. Sakura snapped out of her thoughts as Hinata began telling her the story.

Hinata was walking back from the grocery store close to her apartment. Lately, she realized after it was pointed to her by Neji, her thoughts were preoccupied making her careless and sloppy in her work at the Hyuuga Corporation. Her thoughts were consumed by three things that were intricately intertwined with each other: her father, marriage, and taking over the business. She thought she was hiding it well and doing well at her job but if Neji noticed surely her father noticed. Her father watched her like a hawk at the corporation and she couldn't mess up. She looked up at the sky. Her father was the cause of her performance lately. That meeting that she had with him had left her more shaken than she would have liked.

Her father simply told her if she did not get serious about someone soon he would find somebody for her and if she was to find somebody, he would prefer for her choice to be a potential business partner and younger than thirty. She was doing well in the corporation but before he named her the next heir-that had left her speechless-he would like to see her settled. He told her bluntly that he wanted to retire so that he could play with the grandchildren that would come from Neji's-Neji already being happily married to Tenten- and her marriage before they were thirty. He didn't mention Hanabi because she was still too young to start worrying about such things, being that she was in college.

She didn't understand why she had to get married so quickly. Neji could give her father all the grandkids he wanted while she continued living her life: happy and single. Sure she wanted kids at one point, but she was only twenty-five. What was the rush? Or was her father reading those articles again? Surely he was unable to see the article about kids proving to be healthier when they came from parents younger than thirty due to something dealing with the sperms and eggs. She tried her hardest to make sure he didn't see that article. She even bought a dog that she made sure was notorious for shredding newspapers-the dog didn't tear newspapers anymore, was actually frightened to, and she always wondered what her father had done- and disconnected the internet wired throughout the house and the job. She knew he had to have found out some way because he said that her choice had to be younger than thirty and they get kids before then. What was wrong with-

"Hey you crazy ass woman get out the street!" somebody yelled interrupting Hinata's thoughts causing her to stop and look back to see a flash of black before something tackled her to the ground.

A horn blared as the sound of a car driving fast drove by also a "get out of the road you fucking sexy moron!" was heard.

'Oh my God!' Hinata thought her eyes closed tightly shut as she was laid to rest on what felt like grass. 'I almost died!'

"Hey lady how many fingers am I holding?" somebody asked as something was roughly jammed into her side.

Hinata slowly opened her eyes and saw fingers in her face. She looked from the fingers to the owner and stared in awe at the man sitting next to her briefly noting it was his knees digging into her side. His tan face was shaped to perfection with a bright head of unnatural yellow hair as well as what looked to be three scars on each cheek. But none of those caught her eyes as much as his eyes did. They were the most amazing blue she had ever seen and she could not get herself to look or do anything else.

"Dobe you're not helping her at all." A bored voice said. Hinata gave a quick glance to the person who she also briefly noted was good looking and was glaring daggers at her. "Are you stupid or what? Don't you know to look both ways before crossing the road?"

Somehow she knew he was talking to her but she could not bring herself to answer the rude person. The beautiful blond was shoving three fingers in her face again.

"Th-th-three." She finally answered, whispering. "Th-th-thank you for-for s-saving my l-life."

"What was that? Didn't hear you," he said tilting his head even closer to Hinata.

Hinata realizing that he was close enough to kiss her began blushing a crimson red. Being unable to handle the close proximity, she slipped into unconsciousness but not before hearing: "Sasuke! She fainted! I swear to God I didn't do anything! What do I do?"

"Shut up dobe. I'm calling the paramedics."

"And that's why I'm still alive today!" Hinata ended happily.

"Did you get their names? You should thank them properly." Sakura offered happy those two men were there.

"No…I didn't-I don't-I didn't even think of that!" Hinata thought dejectedly coming to a realization. "I won't see him again!"

"Yeah probably not but at least you were able to meet them. You could have died and never have met the love of your life."

'Gawd she could be so blunt sometimes.'

A pounding on her door and her name being shouted was heard.

'Crap.'

"Sakura I have to go. Neji is here."

"Okay I'll see you at lunch tomorrow."

"Yeah," Hinata said.

"Wait! Hinata how did you get out of the hos-" Sakura was cut short as Hinata hanged up the phone.

She gulped before getting up and opening the door for Neji.

Neji shoved the door forcefully open due to Hinata moving to slow for him. He slammed the door closed, grabbed Hinata and threw her over his shoulder as he headed toward the balcony.

"Neji! Let go of me! What are you doing get away from the balcony." Hinata began struggling earnestly as she saw the approaching balcony.

Neji looked outside to make sure there weren't any witnesses before holding Hinata upside down over the sidewalk by her ankles.

"You want to die so quickly huh? Let me help you out Hinata." Neji said with a bored expression on his face.

"I didn't mean it!" Hinata screamed crying. "I'm sorry! It won't happen again! I swear! Please just let me go."

"That's good, but are you sorry for hanging up on me?" Neji asked suddenly jerking his hand up and down.

Hinata immediately stopped crying, struggling, and apologizing to give Neji her fiercest glare, which he ignored. "Are you serious?"

"Quite so. Nobody hangs up on this Neji without suffering consequences."

"Well then, no I am not sorry I did hang up on you. In fact I am quite happy with myself because it just proves to me that you are not as important or scary-"

'Not important? Not scary?' Neji thought as he accidentally dropped Hinata.

"Neji!" Hinata screamed as she fell all the way down.

'Will nobody save me? Is this how I'm going to die after only recently meeting my soul mate?' These and other similar thoughts were traveling around her mind as she fell to her death.

"Hinata! Would you shut the hell up? You're on the ground level! How the hell is it you're still screaming like you're falling from a fifteen story building? And for heaven's sake you just had to scream my name? Now the neighbors know my name!"

Hinata's only coherent thought as she looked around: Now that stupid song will be stuck in my head.

Hinata glared at Neji's retreating figure before getting up and heading towards her apartment.

'Maybe I do need a husband so he can protect me from the devil's many spawns walking the Earth.'

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Hinata laid in bed looking out the window. The luminous full moon gave off an ethereal glow lighting up Hinata's normally dark room.

Hinata sighed before turning her back to the moon but not after wishing, "I wish to see the love of my life again."

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Hinata looked at the time and gave a sigh of relief. Lunch time. It was time for her to go meet Sakura at their usual shindig. Hinata quickly straightened her office. She looked around her office for her purse as she put on her Gracia faux leather nude and black pumps, which was a normal habit for her to lose her purse and take off her heels once she was alone in her office.

There was a knock on Hinata's door before Neji peeked his head in. Her eyes instantly narrowed on him. 'Since when did Neji start knocking on my door before bursting into my office? He's hiding something from me.'

"Where are you going?" Neji asked as he sauntered into the room.

'Ah, there's the Neji I know. Maybe I was just hallucinating…'

"Sakura and I are going to lunch," Hinata said picking up her purse and heading towards the door.

Neji followed Hinata out her office and watched her lock it. "The same place?"

"We haven't found anything better." she said walking to the elevator.

"Well…have fun and bring me back something sweet!" Neji shouted before the elevator closed.

Hinata was too busy looking forward to meeting Sakura that she didn't pay attention to the most obvious thing: Neji asked her to bring him something back sweet. The only time she ever saw him eat sweets was at his wedding and every time Tenten wasn't looking he would spit it out into one of the many napkins he had on his person. He didn't like sweets and he never trusted Hinata to carry out favors for him. The last time he did, his hair became an orange afro. Tenten didn't recognize him during their honeymoon and called the police on him when she saw him in their honeymoon suite. It was the most disastrous honeymoon ever.

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Hinata phone started ringing as she stood outside the restaurant. She looked through her bag and found it. Sakura's name along with her picture flashed across the screen.

"Yo," Hinata answered as she pushed the door open.

"Hinata!"

'That voice does not belong to Sakura.' Hinata thought and looked back in mid step. She gave a gasp of surprise. Hanabi was running toward her—in the thinnest heels ever—waving.

Hinata was too excited and did not see the person in front of her as she completed her step, effectively bumping into the person and causing him to spill his drink on himself. The hiss brought Hinata's attention to the situation.

Hinata's eyes widened in surprise, "I'm sorry! I didn't see you there! My sister called my name, which shocked me because she isn't supposed to be here yet, and she's here. I should have been paying attention! I'm so sorry! I'll make it up to you! Anything you need I can afford!"

"Hanabi's here?" Sakura screamed into the phone. "Who are you apologizing to?"

'Sakura!' Hinata switched her cell phone to her other ear. "Oh my God! I'm sorry Sakura! I forgot about you but yes she's here! I accidentally bumped into somebody because I was distracted."

"You're that crazy ass lazy who doesn't know how to cross a street. I can see now that you're just a klutz." The person said.

Hinata whipped her head towards the voice. "You're that pompous jerk who was there!" Hinata eyes widened before covering her mouth with her free hand. "I'm sorry." She whispered before covering her mouth again.

The dude gave a smirk. "Never been called pompous. But a jerk? A hundred times before and a hundred times more. Is that anyway to treat the person who-"

"Sasuke-teme! You actually left me while I was in the bathroom? You made me pay for the bill!"

Sasuke rolled his eyes and mumbled, "I would have gotten away too…" He gave Hinata a pointed look which she ignored due to her attention being elsewhere.

"Hey! It's the chick who almost got killed yesterday!"

'Did he have to say it like that?'

"I never got your name, pretty lady."

Hinata blushed. "Hi-hi-hi-Hi-na-na-"

"Pretty lady? For the love of everything holy! Spit out your damn name Hinata." Sakura said from the phone.

"My name's Hinata," Hinata said in one breathe before looking down quickly.

"My name's Naruto! Believe it!" Naruto said with an enthusiasm Hinata found endearing. As though remembering the other person, Naruto clapped his hand on to Sasuke's shoulder—which Sasuke gave a grimace of disgust to—and with a little less enthusiasm, "And oh yeah this is Sasuke."

"Hinata invite them to dinner to thank them for saving your life!" Sakura squawked into the phone before hanging up.

"Oh…um can I get your numbers! I would like to thank you for saving my life with dinner at my place." Hinata said.

"You'll have to take Sasuke's because mines isn't working. It fell into my fish tank."

Sasuke rolled his eyes before firing out the digits.

"Would you wait! I wasn't ready!" Hinata said annoyed. "Okay. Now I'm ready."

Sasuke said it over in an even, insulting tone of pace.

"Hinata," Hanabi said as she finally reached them. "Who knew it was so hard to run in heels?"

They all looked down at Hanabi's thin, four inch heels, then back up and simply ignored her.

'If she can run in heels…then she's a whore.'

"Um…so I'll get into contact with you as soon as possible and set up the dinner as soon as I am free."

"Whoa! Wait a second! Hinata you've been whoring out while I was gone? You going on a date with two men at the same time? Are you guys going to have a threesome or something?" Hanabi asked curiously.

Hinata face paled before she began blushing. "Come on let's go, Hanabi." Hinata ushered Hanabi into the restaurant. "Um b-bye."

"Hn," was Sasuke's reply.

"Bye Hinata! See you soon!" Naruto said excitedly.

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"So Hinata," Sakura took a sip of her drink. "Where did all that stuff occur before you came to meet up with me?"

Hinata looked at Hanabi's drink remembering the whole incident. She had finished her own drink and she needed another one. Hanabi's fruit punch was just tempting her and Hanabi was in the bathroom… Hinata grabbed Hanabi's drink and finished it in one gulp. She wiped her lips daintily with a napkin. "Right outside."

"What? And you didn't tell me? I wanted to see them!"

"I'm sorry! I was panicking!"

"Hey what happened to my drink?" Hanabi asked as she sat down.

Hinata gave her an innocent expression. "You drank all of it before you went to the bathroom, remember?"

"No," Hanabi scowled.

"You were always so forgetful," Hinata sighed.

Hanabi shrugged. "True"

Sakura gave Hinata a shocked look which Hinata replied with a wink. Hanabi missed the interaction due to her calling the waitress for another drink.