Sometimes being a Hyuuga had its benefits some times. People respected you, there was always a place willing to house you and feed you. However there were some things that even the Hyuuga name couldn't always provide. Such things like a person to confide in or a shoulder to cry on. True, the Clan was tight knit and always protected one another, but just like the rest of the world the Hyuuga's had their misfits. The ones that felt lost in a sea of family who looked at you but never really SAW you.

Hinata had always felt like that, like she didn't belong here, in the clan compound. She was well aware that she didn't fit in. Her father, mother, and sister they were all confident and extremely opinionated. They lived their lives by the family traditions, the very ones Hinata wished she were brave enough to forgo. She didn't like the fact that there was a branch family, she wished she could be silly and show what she felt inside.

Sometimes Hinata wondered what she would be like if she hadn't been born into the Hyuuga clan, as the heir no less. Would she be more confident, since her back bone wouldn't have been squashed by an overbearing father with irrationally high expectations of his daughter? Could she laugh more freely if she had never known what if felt like to be a perpetual disappointment? Perhaps she could have a normal relationship with her siblings seeing as how they would never replace her in her parents' eyes?

Yes, that's what Hinata thought anyways. True she had learned some useful truths along the way (i.e.: life's not fair, you can't please everyone so do your best for yourself and no one else and most importantly Life Goes On no matter what.) So in that aspect Hinata supposed that she should be thankful to have grown up under such conditions.

Besides if she hadn't there is the chance that she wouldn't have fallen for the man who was soon to be Hokage. The one who helped learn to be strong and stand for what she believed in. Aside from the life lessons the clan had given her they had also, in a strange non-direct manner, led her to Naruto (even if they truly thought he wasn't fit for her to marry)

Oh yeah and that fortune sure was helpful when it came to paying for a wedding ceremony.

"I do," the words floated across Hinata's ears gently pulling her from her musings.

"I now pronounce you husband and wife you may kiss the bride," Naruto leaned forward and sealed his lips over Hinata's.