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CAPÍTULO 1

Hinata Hyuuga rushes her way to class only to find that Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame -her best friends- are not there yet. She finds it odd, especially with Shino since he's usually earlier than the time they always agree upon meeting because he likes to be punctual. Kiba too, but Shino is always the earliest. But both of them are missing. Confused by this fact, Hinata checks her phone and sees that it says 7:20AM. Really, they were supposed to meet at 7:15AM.

She looks over the class again and notices that there isn't actually a soul in there. Now that is really odd. By this time there usually is at least three to four people, but again, no one is there.

Hinata walks towards her seat at the front row, second column, and put her backpack on her desk. She contemplates whether to sit down or wander around. She decides on the latter.

Hinata leaves her backpack on her desk and goes to the lunchroom. There she sees some people eating breakfast and decides to do the same as she left her house in a rush in order to meet Shino and Kiba on time (although she got there a few minutes late tsk tsk). As she sits down on an empty table, she sends a text to the both of them asking if there were going to get there soon.

Time passes and Hinata has finished her breakfast, but have gotten no response from any of them yet. Because of this, she goes to walk around the school courtyard to see if she sees them around. As she wanders, she passes by the soccer field and sees a few people in there practicing, but in specific: a blonde-haired male. Her heart skips a beat as soon as she spots him, making her instantly turn around. At this exact moment, Hinata's phone dinged indicating a new text message was received.

It was Shino.

"I'm leaving soon. Woke up a bit late," it read. 'A bit late?' Hinata wonders with a raised brow. She looks at the time on her phone again. 7:33AM it reads. 7:34AM now. This is not like Shino.

"You do know we were supposed to meet at-" Hinata starts writing, but then Kiba's call appears on her screen.

"Hello?" Hinata answers.

"Ughh, Hinata, good morning!" a sleepy Kiba says sheepishly.

"Good morning, Kiba," Hinata replies. "Are you just waking up?" She asks puzzled. Kiba yawns and nods his head, forgetting that they are talking through a phone and not face to face.

"Yeah.." Kiba responds after a while. Hinata sighs in disappointment. "Where are you?" he asks. "I can hear some yelling in the background."

Hinata looks behind her and once again watches the boys, including the loud and unpredictable blond-haired male, play some soccer. "I'm here, at school, near the soccer field," she says a bit irritated because of the fact that none of her two best friends are there when they were supposed to meet almost 20 minutes ago.

"What? Why?!" Kiba asks confused.

"Because… we were to… meet at… 7:15...?" Hinata points out.

"Yeah, but-"

"Wait, hold on, I'm getting another call," Hinata quickly interrupted. She takes the other call and hears Shino's greeting.

"Good morning, Hinata," he says.

"Good morning, Shino."

"You woke up early today," he points out. "That's odd."

"Yeah, and you late," Hinata replies. As she speaks, she makes her way to a bench near the soccer field. "Why are the both of you so late today? Class is going to start soon and we never got to meet before then, like we agreed."

"What do you mean?" Shino asks.

"You two are late!" Hinata repeats.

"Are you okay, Hinata?".

"Ah! Wait! Kiba is on the other line. Let me merge the calls."

"Hello?" Shino speaks up.

"Shiino! Hey! Good morning!" Kiba yells with enthusiasm.

"Why do you need to yell so loud this early in the morning?" Shino asks annoyed. Kiba laughs at this.

"Soooo, where are you two?" Hinata asks.

"I'm on my way," Shino says.

"I'm still home," Kiba says, although barely audible. He's moving around so he cannot be heard that well right now.

"And you?" Shino asks.

"I'm at school; been waiting for you two." Shino furrows his eyebrows in puzzlement at this until it hits him why it might be that Hinata is in school at this moment. There's a brief pause with no one speaking, and all one could hear is Kiba's footsteps going from one place to another and some barely audible curses that he throws at himself. After a moment, Shino speaks.

"So, Kiba, have you realized what is going on with Hinata?"

"What do-" Hinata perks in.

"Yeah!" Kiba replies without giving Hinata a chance to speak. "Poor Hinata. This is what you get for going by yourself," he chuckles evilly. Shino chuckles at this.

"Well, she couldn't have taken us, and we wouldn't had been able to afford it."

"I know, but it just sucks that we were stuck here."

"What would you had done anyway? You just like to stay home and play games."

"Duuude, do you know how many times I have to take Akamaru outside?"

"If it wasn't for him, you would never see the light."

"Guys-" Hinata tries to interrupt to make them explain. She's so confused right now.

"Dude, you're the one that never sees the light! You're always wearing these shades or a hoodie. Like what's with that?"

"It's just comfortable. You know it."

"Yeah, but still-"

"Guyss!" Hinata tries again.

"-it's like 24/7. I bet that's why you're always gloomy. Can't ever see the bright side of things," Kiba jokes.

"That was wack. You're so wack."

Kiba laughs, "Yeah, but you still love me."

Shino snorts at this.

"GUYSSSSS!" Hinata yells this time.

"Oh, Hinata, you're there," Kiba says.

"I have always been," Hinata sighs.

"I'll be there in two minutes. I'll see you soon," Shino says and then hangs up.

"Oh..okay. And you, Kiba?" Hinata asks.

"I'm still home, I'll be there in 15. Need to brush my teeth."

"15 minutes?! School starts around there. You're barely going to make it on time!"

"Don't worry about it, Hinata. See you soon!"

"Wait-!"

"Ah, and how was Australia, by the way?" Kiba asks quickly.

"It was good, why?"

Kiba laughs and hangs up, leaving a puzzled Hinata on the other side.

A few seconds goes by, and a confused Hinata gradually shifts to a panicked one. "No way…" She whispers.

Hinata unlocks her phone and checks her settings. She goes to "date and time" and clicks on it. And there it was, on her time settings. Her time zone was set to "Brisbane". Fudge. She was an hour ahead of Japan's time! She must had forgotten to change it back once she came back from her three-weeks-family-trip to Australia. Hinata screamed internally. She should had known! That explains a lot! Ah!

From a few feet away, Shino sees this unfold, and laughs.

Today was starting so well.