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Chapter 1
Hinata watched with wistful eyes as the sun illuminated her neighborhood. Small birds sung a song of a brand new day from just outside the window. The cookie-cutter homes seemed completely quiet, but they were most likely buzzing with activity inside. It was the first day of the new school year after all. The muffled sound of her alarm broke her steady gaze of outside. She stood up to turn the phone alarm she had set for 7:00 sharp. Boxes from the recent move still littered the medium-sized room. However, Hinata couldn't have felt more at home.
Her family has lived in the home for about two months now. Her mother, Keiko, had gotten a new job here in Konoha as a real estate agent. Her father, Hiashi, owned a small business selling martial arts equipment to local dojos and was free to pick up and move whenever he wanted. Besides, he felt that Konoha was a better place to expand his business being that it was a larger city. That left Hinata and her younger sister, Hanabi, no real choice but to come along.
After switching off the alarm, she had a lot of time before she actually wanted to get dressed. She decided to just retake her place back by the windowsill. She took her place again on her black futon couch by the window and resumed watching the outside. By that time, a few children were standing by a bench about two houses down. They seemed to be playing tag at the makeshift bus top while they waited to get picked up.
Hinata's frown seemed to deepen as she watched the scene play out. Anyone else would just see it as a few kids playing a harmless game. However, their fun just reminded her of a time that she was not fond of remembering. When she was just an elementary tot, she never had any friends to play with. She soon realized that everyone in her small town disliked her family. There was a predisposition to hate anyone named 'Hyuga' in the town of Sugi. Her uncle, Hizashi, was involved in an apparent drug bust gone bad. He was a police officer that was gunned down in a battle with a local king pin. Apparently, it went bad for the 'Hyuga' clan when some of the evidence of the case was tampered with. In the end, Hizashi was framed for the majority of the crimes and received bad press that turned the public against him.
She tried her hardest to prove to all of her fellow classmates that she wasn't a bad person. Her persistence proved to be in vain when the students began to find other flaws in her. Her stutter especially. She quickly adopted the name "Stuttering Sally" and was teased repeatedly about her speech. There began her journey of time spent playing by herself, being pegged by spit balls, being made fun of for her appearance, and explaining away various bruises from mean kids on the playground.
She had to come to her own conclusion that the kids there just weren't going to be won over. Hinata began to try her best not to be noticed by distancing herself entirely. She didn't bother speaking since she knew she was just going to be teased, so she started receiving F's for class participation. Her parents finally moved to the town of Tonika in order to get their careers back in order and protect her and her sister. Hinata didn't take well to the new town or school either for fear of being bullied again. They tried everything from therapy to medicating her, but nothing worked. She just refused to go to school until eventually she was taken out and home schooled.
Hinata wiped away the unshed tears in her eyes when she heard clunky footsteps coming towards her door. The person gave two hard knocks and stood outside of her room for just a second. The door was thrust open after a few seconds by her younger sister, Hanabi. "Mom said that it's time for you to get ready for school." Hanabi said in a sing-song manner. She glanced around the room while she waited for a response that would never come. "You know, you should actually talk because mom and dad are thinking that you're mute." The young girl turned on her heel and practically skipped out of her room.
Hinata begrudgingly got up to stretch. Her whole outlook of today was beginning to turn negative. It was going to be her first day of actual school in over seven years. She let that thought sink in as she grabbed her black band t-shirt and a pair blue jean tights. She took her time getting changed and then grabbed her backpack. Hinata didn't spare so much as a glance at her vanity mirror because she never liked what she saw anyway. She just inhaled a sharp breath and stepped out of her room. Her mom and sister waited for her as she descended down the steps.
"Your first day of high school. Oh, I'm so proud." The girls mother, Keiko, said. She wiped her eyes dramatically completely missing Hinata's eye roll.
"Mom, we have to go." Hanabi tapped on her wrist watch for emphasis. She was always a stickler about time and punctuality. That's probably why her and their father was so close.
"Right. Sorry." Keiko searched her purse for her car keys. She pulled out the lanyard and looked over the girls again. "Hinata, why do you always wear baggy shirts like that? Did you even bother to brush your hair?" Hinata raked a hand through her ebony tresses just to make her mother happy. "You know, you really should care more about your appearance. You have a beautiful shape. All you have to do is show off." Keiko shook her head and smoothed down her black blazer and slacks teetering slightly on her six-inch heels. Her mother turned herself back towards the door to leave.
'You only say that because you're beautiful yourself.' Hinata stared enviously at the woman she called mom. She originally wasn't part of the Hyuuga clan, but her father had found her through a mutual friend. He was engaged to be married to a distant cousin his father had already picked, but he fell in love with Keiko and broke off the other engagement. Hinata could see why. Her heart-shaped face, jade green eyes, and pearl pink lips only seemed to get better with time. Light freckles sprinkled across her small nose, and gave her innocent and sweet appearance. Her shoulder-length dark brown hair always glistened and contrasted well with her eye color. Plus, she had the hourglass body of a model and dressed it well as she had a passion for fashion.
"Ok, we're off." Her mother screamed to the sleeping Hiashi before locking the front door. They all walked towards the car with Hinata anxiety beginning to kick in. She somehow had a feeling that this day was going to be pretty eventful. She just didn't know whether that was a good thing or not.