Hey guys this is my first ever story, hope its not too bad :)
Ch 1- The news
Hinata came straight home from college; her father had told her that an old friend would be visiting him and that he would like Hinata to serve them tea.
Hinata waited for her father's cue to go in with the tea, she wished her father would call her soon as she wanted to serve the tea when it was still hot. She was also very eager to meet her father's old acquaintance, anybody who ever visited him were for their own selfish benefit as her dad was the owner of a multi national company.
She sighted, looking about her to occupy herself with something to do when her dad called for her. That was her cue she slowly opened the door and went in with the tea.
After serving them tea Hinata was about to leave when her dad motioned her to sit. Feeling nervous she sat down beside her father. She started playing with her hands to keep her nervousness at bay when her dad spoke up, "Hinata I am sending you to live with my friend Fugaku, you will stay there for a month during your summer break." While Hinata was still trying to comprehend what her father had just said, he turned to Fugaku and gravely requested, "I hope you will be able to teach her something. My efforts haven't come to any fruition. If she is to take over my company I want her to be fully capable to do it and not make a fool out of herself."
Fugaku smiled, "don't worry, I'll take her under my wing but a month is a little short to teach her everything."
"Well let's just start with a month and then we'll see what we can do."
Fugaku nodded and stood up to leave, "Well Hiashi I'll be leaving tomorrow by six o'clock flight, make sure that she will be ready by next week."
All this time Hinata sat dumbfounded. Questions like 'what had just happened' and 'how will I go live among strangers' and 'leaving all my friends behind' raced through her mind.
When Hiashi came back after seeing Fugaku off he saw that his daughter was still sitting there with a troubled look on her face, concerned he asked her what was wrong.
She looked at her father with sadness in her eyes but didn't dare to say anything.
Lord Hiashi sat down massaging his temples feeling a small headache coming on, "look Hinata I don't have time to deal with this right now, please don't look at me like that. You know I always think what is best for you.
After hearing this Hinata felt a bit selfish for only thinking of her own concern. She smiled a little bit and told her dad not to worry; she would try to do her best and not disappoint him again. It wasn't a false assurance, she was really determined this time to not mess up.
Hiashi nodded with approval and then got up to go to his study; he had some phone calls to make.
Hinata went to her room and plopped down on her bed, what was she going to do…..she sighted and looked around her impeccably neat room. She lay down on her bed and closed her eyes expecting everything to be as it was before, but alas that wasn't going to happen.
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Tap…..tap…..tap, Hanabi impatiently knocked on her sister's door, Hinata always got up before any of them, Hanabi decided to go in cause she had been knocking on the door for about four minutes now so she opened the door and went in.
Hanabi tapped Hinata at the shoulders to wake her up, "Hinata wake up!" shouted Hanabi loudly at which she got a reaction and Hinata shot up fully awake looking at her sister incredulously.
"What time is it?" asked Hinata rubbing her eyes to wake her up fully.
"Its seven, hurry up or you and me are both going to be late," replied Hanabi sternly.
Hinata's eyes bulged at this information and she quickly got out of bed and rushed into the bathroom to get ready, she had only ten minutes to get ready.
Hinata smiled with relief, she had managed to get ready in ten minutes and was in the car ready to leave. First she would drop Hanabi at her school and then she would proceed to her college.
As Hinata entered the building, she was greeted by her two good friends Kiba and Shino, they had been friends since middle school, Kiba was the loud one and Shino was the quiet one. Anyways before they could exchange more greetings their professor told them to get to class as they were already late for it.
All three of them sprinted for their classrooms, although technically there were still 3 minutes left till the lecture started but they didn't want to get their history professor angry.
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Hinata sat down with a thump beside the tree. She wasn't in the mood for company today, she opened her bag to produce a sandwich, looking at it she realized how hungry she was when Kiba snatched half of the sandwich and started eating it plopping down beside her, "hmm, Hinata this is really good," at which he got a glare from Shino.
"Hinata what's wrong you didn't meet us at the cafeteria," asked Shino concerned.
When Hinata didn't reply Shino and Kiba both looked at her questioningly.
"Hinata out with it, we know something's wrong," persisted Kiba.
"Sorry guys, you know yesterday how I had to go home early cause there was someone coming to meet father."
"Yes."
"Well it was one of my dad's old friends and he also has his own successful company that he runs. Dad is sending me away to live with his family for a month so that he can prepare me to take over my dad's company," finished Hinata.
"What? What about our plans for this summer break? Didn't you talk to him," yelled Kiba.
"Well I couldn't bring myself to do it, he's already so stressed out, I didn't want to add more to his already pile of problems."
"Why can't you think of yourself for once," asked a disgruntled Kiba.
Hinata chose not to reply to this and looked down at her feet.
Shino spoke for the first time since Hinata had told them of this news, "Hinata what's done is done, there's no way around it, and it's only a month, go and try to have a good time. What if you actually enjoy it there? When the month is over you'll be back and we'll do everything that we had planned. Don't worry about it."
Hinata smiled and hugged her friend; he always knew how to make her feel better.
Kiba feeling a bit guilty told Hinata that it was ok and that she shouldn't be stressed out about it.
Hinata stood up for her next lecture, she felt better. Talking to her friends always made her feel better. All three of them walked together towards their next classroom.
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Hinata came home late that night. She had gone out with her friends, since they wouldn't be seeing each other for about a month, they all as in Ino and Shikamaru had also joined them along with Neji, his girlfriend Tenten and Lee. Together they had lots of fun.
As soon as Hinata changed and sat down on that comfortable bed it dawned on her that in six days she would be sleeping somewhere else. She thought about what her father had said and couldn't help but feel that there was more to this arrangement, a deeper purpose that she quite couldn't figure out. She would think about it more tomorrow, right now she wanted to sleep.