Chapter one
She stared at him as she always did when she knew he would bring unwanted news. She looked down at her small, folded hands and closed her eyes. Her father was a very intricate man and he usually got what he wanted. He was the kind of man who knew how to get things without having to go out of his way doing it. He had always been strict and it seemed he was always watching you even if he were away a great distance. She was afraid of him and gave him only respect and did as he pleased. She figured if she did that than he wouldn't have anything to complain to her about.
He sat there looking at her as well, calculating just what he had brought up over the past twenty-five years. She, tall and slender, pretty and soft-spoken, was Hinata Hyuga. Noticing her looking down he cleared his throat. Snapping her head up, she mumbled a quick apology.
He nodded approvingly. "Hinata, How old are you?"
She looked up at him and answered. "Twenty-five, Father." He lifted an eyebrow.
"And may I ask how old is Hanabi?"
"Yes you may, Father. She is twenty."
His gaze on her shifted towards the large self portrait of Hanabi, her husband, and their baby boy. Her father had made it arranged that it would be in his study.
"Tell me Hinata Hyuga, Do you plan on getting married? Having children?" He questioned his intimidating gaze back on her.
"Yes, Father I do." Her answer was quiet and feeble. She knew where this was going and she also knew what was coming up next.
"Apparently by now Hinata Hyuga you don't. You know there is a time limit in the Hyuga household at which you are to get married by your twentieth birthday. Hanabi and Neji have already fulfilled their duties. They have already made good strong families, they have already moved out of the manor with their family." Every word was like a stab in her heart, in her pride. Feeling tears coming into the cracks of her eyes, she forced them back. If there was one thing you didn't do it was weep in front of Father.
"I've given you too much time Hinata. Since you haven't taken any action in the last five years I will. In fact, I've already taken the responsibility of choosing your betrothed." Her world froze right at that moment.
"You've…already chosen?" She swallowed the lump that was forming in her throat and reminded her not to cry no matter how much she wanted to.
Her Father nodded and said simply, "Sasuke Uchiha. Coming from the Uchiha bloodline I do believe your children will be a great success."
Hinata said nothing. She was too flabbergasted to speak, to move, to react to all the news she had just been bombarded with. It was as if she were a dummy sitting in the chair Hinata Hyuga was supposed to sitting in. A girl who was due to marry a man she had never met before, to make children with, to live the rest of her life with.
"The preparations' have already been arranged. You'll be wed in one month, Hinata." He stared at her noticing her shocked facial expression.
"That is all, you can leave." He said with a small wave of the hand. He felt no guilt at all, forcing his eldest daughter into an arranged marriage. She had brought this onto her own self. He was also interested in how she would get along with the Uchiha herself. It was a great opportunity to see how Hinata Hyuga, tall and slender, pretty and soft-spoken would handle Sasuke's brute actions.
"Good day Hinata."
She stood up, not blinking and left the room. Her hand shook as she closed the door behind her softly. Putting her hand over her mouth she walked up the stairs leading up to the 2nd room, where her room was.
Closing the door she like a child who had just been reprimanded, slowly fell onto her bed full of white linens and started to cry, weep, and wish that she in the last five years would've gotten married.
She didn't know Sasuke Uchiha.
She had never even met Sasuke Uchiha, for all she knew he could be the Earl of Insanity!
Would he even take to her well?
She knew nothing about Sasuke Uchiha, a man who she was to marry in one month, have children with, and live the rest of her life with. How could her father do this to her? Yes, she knew there was a certain time period in which you were to marry. And yes she knew that her Father wanted her, like Hanabi and Neji, to breed good, strong children who in the future would keep the family name going. She wanted all of that to! She wanted to marry! She wanted to have children! But she also intended to live the rest of her life with a person she actually loved. Instead she was to marry Sasuke Uchiha.
Right in the middle of her thoughts she just had to ask herself how was he handling all of this? Perhaps he was outraged by this sudden news as well? Judging from her Fathers words she knew the Uchiha's were probably very well known and important. She had heard the name several times before but didn't concern herself with them. They to probably wanted good offspring as well…that's all they wanted. That's all her Father wanted as well. He cared nothing about her happiness or her desires. Hinata knew she shouldn't speak badly of her Father but it was true! All her life she had always done as she was told. So why now did he do this? She would never understand her Father. She never did and probably never would.
"One month," Hinata whispered threw her tears. "I will be a married woman…I will be Hinata Uchiha."
Saying it out loud just made the tears run down faster, with more meaning.
