I stared at my father in disbelief. There is no way that he would think that I would play that! He stared at me impassively and with a little pleading in there. Somewhere. "Please, Hinata. This is only a trial run and the Uzumakis and the Uchihas are also asking their children to play it. You know how important this is. This is the first time that the Uchihas, Hyuugas, and Uzumakis ever agreed to do something together and actually got along while doing it. I've already asked Neji to do it but he said that he doesn't have time to do it and Hanabi is agreeing to do it also. So please do this for me." He said stoically, as if he can't believe that he has to ask for me to do something for him. That he is saying 'please'. I looked down at the game that was about to go out to the world in a month, looking at the Shuriken and Kunai with the words 'Ultimate Ninja' on the front in big orange letters. I looked back at my father's slightly pleading face and sighed before I nodded. He got a relieved expression before he went back to his paperwork, telling me that he was done speaking with me with his actions.

I walked out of his office before I put the game in my room and went back to getting ready for my first day of school in Konoha. I had been sent to an advanced school up in Ame before I was forced to come back down to Konoha because Hanabi and father missed me and I was too smart for that advanced school. Now I'm going to a regular school because of the fact that the teachers thought that I should make friends and possibly have a normal life. I had almost laughed at them, almost because I was too shy to do so. There was no way I would laugh at someone right to their faces! The only reason I felt the need to laugh was because of a Hyuuga never had a normal life. They were always put to the center of attention and laughed at immediately if they made a tiny mistake. I never told anyone my last name so they never paid any attention to me so I was always in the shadows. Here, that wouldn't work because Neji was going to be my guide because my father had requested it of him. Neji always wanted to be recognized as a family member so he would do that just because of that. He hated me because of how I acted, how I was an improper Hyuuga, which I shouldn't be the Hyuuga heiress because of how I don't act like one.

I sighed as I walked out of the mansion, bumping into somebody almost immediately after I walked out of the gate. I cried out as I fell to the ground and laughter came from four different directions and people. "Nice Deidara, you made a Hyuuga ungraceful." A male voice came from a spot that there was laughter a moment before. I looked up to see a group of nine males and one female, the girl staring at me semi-sympathetically but mostly impassively. The males were uncaring, laughing, or just staring at me. I blushed and stood up, bowing.

"I-I'm sorry!" I yelped out before I ran off, fixing the zipper on my jacket, before I yelped again. Why, you ask? A hand had grabbed my hood, pulling me back some. I turned back to see that it was Neji and that he was glaring at me. "N-N-Neji-nii." I muttered bowing my head and accepting anything he threw at me.

"You're a disgrace to the Hyuuga clan." He said calmly but with an angry tone in his voice. "You should be kicked out of it but Hiashi is too kind for that. He pities you and believes that you will change. He only keeps you around because you look like your mother." He said before he walked off in the direction of school, leaving me with my head bowed and silently crying. I knew that every word that he spoke was true, more so than he knew. I adjusted the strap of my bag and quietly walked behind him, my gaze trained on the sidewalk a few millimeters away from his feet. The laughter had stopped when Neji spoke so I just assumed that the group was gone but I was apparently wrong. I was stopped by a hand on top of my head, making me blink in confusion as I was stopped.

"I think we should take Hinata-chan off your hands Neji, if that is okay with you." I heard a stoic voice say from behind me that sounded vaguely familiar. I felt my hair move over my shoulder as if we were in slow motion and my eyes widen in shock as I realized why the voice sounded familiar. It was Uchiha Itachi. My only friend when I lived here before and the only one I never stuttered around. He acted as an older brother to me, even as his younger brother became competitive with him. "And, judging by how you were acting around her, you probably don't care." He said before he grabbed my hand and pulled me off. I was still too shocked to utter a sound so I just stared at the Uchiha I used to know. He had changed some, his eyes no longer the warm midnight black that used to be there, replaced with a black abyss that added mystery to his looks. The stress lines had become more prominent and his black hair longer and fluffy looking. He was wearing a black jacket with silver lined red clouds decorating it at random intervals and a black shirt underneath, jeans as his chosen bottoms.

I glanced at the group to see they were all wearing the same jacket and a shocked expression. A blonde, the one I had bumped into on my way out of the estate, recovered first. "Yo, Itachi! Why are we taking a Hyuuga off of his hands?" Itachi ignored him, leading me further towards the group, pausing only when we reached them. By then I was blushing and confused.

"This is Hyuuga Hinata. Welcome her or make me mad." He said, glaring at everyone in the group.

"I-I-Itachi-kun, I-I don't th-think that y-you should threaten them l-like that." I said, loud enough to be heard but still pretty quietly. He turned to me with a small smile before he poked my forehead with what I had decided to call the 'poke of doom' when I was six because I didn't know what else to call it. I frowned at him and poked him back, but on his arm instead of his forehead. He smirked before he poked me again. I sighed in frustration. "P-please st-stop, I-Itachi-kun. I-I do not appreciate b-b-being poked." I stuttered out, staring at the ground with a slightly annoyed expression but I kept that mostly to myself.

He laughed at me, making others stare at him. "I know, that's why I did that." He smiled warmly at me, his eyes momentarily going back to the warm midnight color they used to be before he stopped smiling and turned back to the group where half were still staring. I hadn't noticed that we were walking this whole time so I looked up and was surprised to see the school right in front of me.

"I-I gotta go, I-I-Itachi-kun." I said quietly before I hurried of f. I didn't like to be stared at and Itachi was frequently stared at by his admirers. And I was getting glared at because he was holding my hand the whole walk there. I looked around for my locker so I could relieve my shoulder of the weight that was on it and found it next to a blonde and a brunette. Both males. They looked at me curiously as I opened up my locker quickly, stuffed my books in there, fixed my jacket, and closed the locker. I started to walk away, giving the duo a kind smile, before I was stopped by the brunette's voice.

"Hinata-chan?" he asked, sounding like he was confused. I looked at him, seeing some familiarity in his face as well as the blonde's.

"K-Kiba-san?" I stuttered out, confused as to why he was talking to me. When I lived here he would torture me to no end, along with Naruto, and he would make fun of me so much. He stopped bothering Naruto when they became friends but he still made fun of me. I blinked a few times before I bowed my head to him and walked away.

"Wait, that's Hinata?" I heard the blonde shout and I realized why I recognized his whiskered face. It was Naruto. My former crush, the one who didn't even notice me. I turned around in confusion, looking at both of them curiously.

"What's wr-wrong? I d-d-don't look that m-much d-different, do I?" I asked, concerned that I had suddenly gotten more attention than I wanted. I really hate attention.

"Yeah! You used to be so weird, now you're hot!" Naruto blurted out, making me tilt my head in confusion as he blushed a bright red. My brain registered that he had just complimented my looks and I blushed slightly before I started walking away, turning the corner just to bump into someone again. I looked up when I didn't fall and I was met with amber eyes that were surrounded by a dark orange that would be mistaken for red. He was standing next to a girl who looked the same age as him, which makes both of them my superior in this school.

"Watch it, girl." He snapped at me before he pushed me out of his way. I let out a cry of pain when my back hit the lockers.

"Pein, be nicer. She's obviously new and Deidara was talking about a girl with pale eyes and dark purple hair being Itachi's friend. She made him show another emotion other than anger, annoyance, or calm." The blue haired girl said in an informational tone. 'Pein's' eyes turned incredulous, as if he couldn't believe that his friend had told him that. She turned to me with a kind expression that didn't reach her emotionless eyes. "I'm sorry, but would your name happen to be Hyuuga Hinata?" I nodded slightly, scared that she was going to make fun of me or say I'm not worthy of the name Hyuuga, before I pushed off of the lockers and hurried away with my hands clenched inside of my jacket pockets. I glanced at my schedule and saw I had Health with Kakashi, H. I could feel that this class will not go very good for me, just because it was health.

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Sorry that I haven't updated lately, my bro keeps stealing my computer and playing games on it and I'm not allowed to steal it from him. It makes me frown in annoyance just thinking about it. I am working on my TobiDei one right now, being unable to work on it on my mom's comp is a pain in the ass, and it's only on my comp and I'm kinda at a roadblock… heh heh…

Coming in Peaces,

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