AN: I've started a new story! Actually, it's a reworking of an older story but that will be explained more in the AN at the end of this prologue. For those of you reading Dance with Me, Exotica or Little Agent Hope, don't worry, I'm not going to forget about those stories. This will be my "breather project." The other two are more complicated & take more thought. This is a simple love story & I wrote out an entire plotline ages ago.
Also, it will get a little non-English heavy at the end of this prologue. The whole story will not by that way. Promise :] The majority of the story IS IN ENGLISH. If there is a bit of Spanish or Italian it is usually a swear word or pet name & you don't need to actually know what it means, but I have translations at the end of the chapter if there are any non-English words. Only Hinata's family is bi- & trilingual, everyone else speaks only English.
Enjoy & DFTBA
Prologue:
September: The Last Day of the Prologue to Forever
The line: one of the most basic tools in geometry apart from the point. With a series of lines every single symbol in the written language can be created. They can also make a plus sign. A plus sign, so elegant in its simplicity, two little lines crossing, a mere +. Who knew after over a decade of math classes that this little, seemingly insignificant symbol could change everything?
Hinata Hyuga knew.
Slowly, Hinata sat down on the side of the tub and took a deep breath. What was she going to do? Should she tell him? Her head felt airy and she couldn't focus her eyes. Breathing was hard. He had ignored the fact that she was naked in his arms when they awoke, pretended like it never happened. She wasn't his usual type anyway, too curvy. They were just friends who had been drunk. It hadn't mattered to him that she had been a virgin or that she had had the hugest crush on him.
Oh, Dio, what was she going to do?
"Hey, chica, are you alright?" Neji, her youngest elder brother asked as he knocked softly on the door.
"Sono condannato!" Hinata held back a sob.
The door softly creaked as Neji opened it and slipped in. He glanced quickly at the sink and then pulled her into a hug. That's all it took, Hinata burst into tears. Soothingly, Neji ran his fingers through her long, dark hair and sang to her in Italian. He didn't know what to say. He didn't know if it would be all right and didn't have the heart to lie to her.
A moment later their madre followed by nonna Francesca entered the bathroom. Both women looked towards the sink before going to Hinata. Their madre sat down next to them on the side of the tub and wrapped her arm around Hinata's back.
"It will be alright, mi pequeña," madre said in her soft, Spanish accents.
"Alright? Think that when you have to tell your husband. My son will want to assassinare that stupido americano!" nonna said as she crossed her arms over her chest. "How could you give yourself to l'americano, Hinata?"
"Nonna, we love you but I really don't think this is the right time," Neji snapped at his grandmother.
"It's the perfect time. Our piccola Hinata is incinta!"
AN:
Dio – "God," Italian
chica – "girl," Spanish
Sono condannato – "I'm doomed," Italian
Madre – Mother, Spanish
Nonna – Grandmother, Italian
mi pequeña – "my little one," Spanish
assassinare – "murder," Italian
stupido americano – "stupid American," Italian
piccola – "little," Italian
incinta – "pregnant," Italian
Feel free to correct my Italian and Spanish. I natively speak English and only know a little French and German.
OOCness Warning: this story is likely to have some OOCness, some of which is on purpose. This story was originally an Original Character story that I never finished. I'm reworking it as Naruto & Hinata, but there are some aspects of the original that I can't part with. Most of the OOCness will be tied to how characters are related to each other & the fact that the original Hinata character comes from a trilingual (Italian, Spanish, English) family with most of her family being immigrants to the United States. I not only enjoy the cultural aspects of this character, but more importantly, Spanish & Italian cultures typically have a stronger view on family unity than American's do. This view is central to how Hinata will view pregnancy & so it's a requirement to the story that it stays that way. I know that Japanese culture has a strong opinion to family as well, but the culture is too foreign to me to give it justice in writing. The second big change will be that Minato will be Naruto's much older brother, not his father. I know this family dynamic would fit Sasuke better, but the way the original Naruto character acts is more similar to Naruto so there will be fewer alterations on my part to better fit Naruto in the long run.
Edit: Thanks to Shay14's wonderful suggestion, Naruto's brother will probably end up being Pain/Nagato instead of Minato! (so many characters!)
