Summary: Hinata's got into showbiz? And she got her boyfriend's full-support! That is, before he found out whom she was partnered with. AU.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
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PILOT EPISODE
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I hadn't been able to stop smiling this past 15 minutes, if people saw me showering while grinning they must've thought I'm crazy. Luckily, there's only me and two kohai in the changing room so I could easily evade them. After I was done showering and picking up my things, I spent no time stalling as I ran through the dorm's hallway to my room, all the way grinning like a mad man. I couldn't wait to share the news with my bestfriend while it's hot!
Okay, so to avoid confusion, let me tell you what happened. I was just finished my usual Judo club schedule for the day when I received a phone call from my girlfriend. She was half crying and half laughing, half scared and half excited when she told me the news. She thought it was an abomination but I thought it was quite the opposite! Infact, it was the greatest news I have ever heard this whole past year!
"Yo, Sasuke!" I kicked the door open and slam it closed again, only to find my roomate was in his infamous cold-mode, staring at his desktop PC. I tentatively walked closer and looked a bit to the monitor as well.
"Sasuke, what are you doing?" I hiss in bewilderment when I saw what he watched. He was watching something in YouTube titled: 'Is It Too Late to Avoid Serious Impacts of Climate Change'
What? What was that stuff he's been staring at?
"Shh." he gestured and shushed me, not once taking off his eyes from the monitor.
No no no no. I knew he was a genius and all that, but I never knew that he was paying attention to a matter of this scale. Come on now, climate change? That's some serious stuff!
"Nani kore? What is it?" I asked again, curiousity took over and I leaned a bit to the speaker to get a hold of the speaker—I mean presenter. And yep, as I suspected, it was in English. Fucking English! Well now, it wasn't like I couldn't speak English. After all, I was a college student (albeit early semesters) so of course I had some basic knowledge on that languange… But that's about it!
I blinked my eyes a few times… No way. I read the title wrong, now I realized. It has continuation. Harvard Thinks Green? This stoic bastard who happened to be my closest pal was watching something Harvard-related? Why did some people have the actual brain capacity to contain all that information? Mine was going to explode soon if I keep watching all these diagrams and charts and graphs and listening to all mumbo jumbo about carbon emission. Ugghhh.
"Can you shut it off for a second?" I prompted, a bit irritated. Though what made me feel annoyed wasn't exactly clear… Was I jealous? You know – since he seemed to be able to understand that stuff, while I could barely figure out the words? Or the fact that he wasn't immediately lending his ears when I'm demanding attention? Still, as expected, I got no reply.
"Pause it? Maybe..?" I asked again.
Silence. Well, not exactly silence, because that white-haired-half-bald presenter whom I thought had to be a professor was still talking on the background.
I waited and waited… I was starting to fidget when that bastard didn't show any sign that he heard me. Finally, I sighed. Both my hands were limping on the sides of my thighs and my head fell in a desperate gesture of defeat. It's all an act, of course. Above all else, I knew Sasuke loved me—and before your imagination went haywire I must cut in and tell you that it was completely platonic.
I was right, he seemed to take pity of me. So for the last minute of uncomfortable silence, he threw several glances at me and sighed, decided to pause the video.
"You have something more important than how the increase of GDP and population, especially from China, and India, is causing an almost incontrollable increase in carbon emission throughout the world, dobe?"
"Yes! Yes! I totally have something more important than that!" I was more than eager when I grabbed his shoulder and shook them.
"What, Naruto?" he twitched a bit under my grasp, looking a bit irritated. But by gods, I knew he wasn't really mind… He loved me too much to feel annoyed just because I grab his shoulders and shake them like crazy.
"Hinata's going to be on television!" I shouted, half screaming, half laughing.
That stoic bastard of mine raised his brows, and from what I saw he couldn't contain his smirk when he responded in mild amusement, "She is?"
Now, knowing Sasuke, that simple 'she is?' meant that he wanted me to elaborate, so I did as such.
"You know, ever since last week, Ino and Sakura had been dragging her around to auditions. I think they've been to a few auditions, those three." I tilted my head and mused, trying to recall what Ino had said in her text messages when she and Sakura kidnapped my girlfriend the other days.
"They've been to a commercial audition, a singing contest, and lastly in a drama casting." I nodded in confirmation, "Oh and they all failed terribly in the singing contest, told me that eventhough all three of them was 'beautiful and gorgeous', but apparently don't have any drop of singing talent in their blood." I chuckled. "So, after a series of tests, guess what. Hinata got the role! And it's a fucking main role too!" I laughed giddily, smacking his shoulder couple of times.
Sasuke seems to ignore the slight pain I must have caused him as he continues to smirk. "And what's about it? Does your girlfriend become an actress now?"
I stared at him with eyes wide, grinning like mad when I presented him with the REAL news.
"She will be on Fuji TV's Getsu-9!" I screamed joyfully.
As indifferent and as stoic as he was, my dearest raven-haired friend still couldn't supressed his surprise to my statement. Hell, being in Fuji TV's Getsu-9 is like the highest appreciation actors and actresses might get from being in a television show! The most prestigious, the most legendary air-time, which was every Monday at 9 PM in the evening!
"But… but that… doesn't make sense…" oh awesome, now Sasuke's hesitating. I didn't think I'd live to see the day, this should be great. Hinata, my love, you've rendered the infamous Sasuke speechless!
"Well, she'll go into some kind of… 'training' first, I think. Like special acting lesson, maybe?" I told him non chalantly. It wasn't important, was it? I mean – every other instant actors/actress had to go through some kind of 'academy', hadn't they? Well true, we might get separated for a while but it would be worth it… right?
Sasuke nodded and threw his eyes to a vacant air next to him as his mind seems to be occupied by something.
"What drama she'll be staring in?" he snapped his gaze back at me.
I blinked. That little detail had escaped me when Hinata told me the news. Probably I was just too excited. That didn't matter, right? Getsu-9 dramas had always been great!
"You don't know, huh…? Then, I bet you wouldn't have any idea who her partner is?" Sasuke kept his eye contact when asking me that question. I had a feeling that he was testing my brain capacity—or my capability in general in purpose, by boring those infamous hotcold-onyx stare right to my eyes.
Would he get his confirmation if I tell him the truth…?
"Err…" I hesitantly forced out a small laugh.
Sasuke immediately rolled his eyes and shifted his chair, back into facing the computer again while fixing his sitting position. He spoke with a relatively loud voice (well, as loud as Sasuke could be), "You don't know who your girlfriend would act with, and what drama she would act in? Gosh… as expected from you…" he grumbled, his skilled fingers are already typing words in search engine. I didn't have time to tackle his insult as I was starting to see his point. What drama indeed? And who would be her co-star?
"Nani nani? What do you have?" I rushed him while invading his personal space when I leaned closer to him—I mean to the computer.
"Don't stand too close!" he snapped while clicking stuff and pressed enter.
Both of us stay in silence, interestedly and eagerly reading the words we found on the screen… as we honestly trying to grasp the meaning of this all.
Neji Hyuuga will star in Fuji TV's Winter's rabu-rabu Getsu-9 drama, "Oshiete yo", starting this January. It's already confirmed that this drama would have a love theme with a lot of romantic scenes. The audition for the role of the Hyuuga's co-star will be hold early in October to enable the winner to receive more intensive acting training a couple months prior to shoot. Neji Hyuuga stated that he was eager and looking forward to his soon to be co-actress and was willing to give guidance to the new comer. Being one of the most popular actors in his generation, it certainly would be an honor for whoever the lead actress would be as she would be able to perform together with him in a Getsu-9 drama.
Awkward silence…
Another awkward silence…
And then Sasuke broke his record of being an ice-prince by shouting shamelessly, frantically pointing at the screen.
"Dude! Your girlfriend and her fucking cousin are gonna star in a romantic drama together! You're so fucked up, man!"
Yeah… he just summarized my feelings completely and correctly in that single sentence.
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A/N: have this idea nagging on my mind for the last couple weeks or so… will this be a NejiHina or NaruHina? Let my fingers take us there ^^
*)Edit: oh and… about that carbon emission, I just HAD to wrote it… I hope it caught your attention lol… it's kind of a serious issue =/