Chapter 2 - Girls vs Boys!
The Wedding Day
Hinata sat on the edge of her bed, butterflies in her stomach, but a smile was on her face. She proceeded to look at the silver ring encrusted with ruby on the ring finger of her left hand. She removed the ring and placed it on her right hand. The ring had belonged to Kushina Uzumaki, who received it on the day she wedded Naruto's father Minato. It is now her engagement ring.
"BIG SISTER HINATA!" Hanabi's helium voice suddenly disturbed her thoughts, the voice managed to echo down the hallways of the Hyuga compound , leading to Hinata blocking her ears. Hinata sighed, she knew this would happen.
"Keep it down will you, it's morning!" Hanabi jumped on her sister, this time Hinata was ready to catch her.
"Come on, let's get out it's your big day!" Hanabi grabbed Hinata's wrist and dragged her to the temporary dressing room
Soon Hinata found herself on a chair as a hair stylist worked on her hair and a makeup artist doing her makeup. The hair styler swiftly twists her hair along a curling wand, giving her soft curls. When all the curling was done, the styler gathers the hair into a loose bun. As Hinata looks at herself in the mirror with her finished look, she gasped. Her eye colour was brought with the lavender shadow on her eyelids and the sparkles in the inner corner of her eye. It's not like she never wore makeup before, it's just that she's a kunoichi and never thought about it much. All she ever wore was mascara and lip balm to training and missions. Her eyelashes were extended with the aid of false eyelashes and the colours of her lips were brought with light pink lipstick painted on her lips.
"Hinabird!" Hinata jerked her head back to see her bridesmaids at the door running to her. Sakura has given her the nickname and now she used most of the time, except in serious situations.
"Wow you look so beautiful! Naruto is going to lose it when he sees your face!" Ino's voice was high pitched with glee. The girls started to dress her up in the wedding dress. It was a traditional dress made of silk. Hinata's eye widened, pretty, she thought to herself.
"Sorry girls may I talk to Hinata for a while, I think you got door games to organise right?" Hiashi stood by the door. The bridesmaid hurried out leaving the father and the elder daughter alone. Hinata turned around to face her father .Hiashi took a good look of his daughter.
"You look like your mother, especially when I married her"
Hinata jerked her head quickly to the mirror. An image of her late mother popped in her mind as she look at herself and began comparing herself to her mother. "Mum" she smiled at the mirror, sensing a wave of nostalgia as memories of her mother hit her mind.
"Look I'm sorry I wasn't exactly the best father, I treated you bad when mum passed away because everytime I look at you all I can think is about her and the clan was pressuring me for a suitable heir"
"It's okay father" Hinata interrupted her. Hiashi realised he could hardly look at his daughter when he was apologizing, his head was facing the floor quarter of the time.
"You still made the best kunoichi out of me. I didn't regret anything, I'm happy being part of Team 8, I'm happy to train with Neji most of the time."
Hiashi , realised the forgiving and kind nature of his daughter, cried in happiness. He's absolutely blessed to have such a daughter, she reminded him of his wife in her personality and looks.
"You brought kindness back to this clan you know, it didn't exist when your mother died, all that existed was hatred" Hiashi said between his tears. He handed a pearl earring to her.
"your mother would like you to have this, she wore it on her wedding day"
Hinata gasped as she saw the shining jewel in front of her. Hiashi immediately walked over and placed the jewellery on his daughter's ear lobe.
"I think you need to use your Byakugan soon, you need to go to your room and watch the girls challenge the boys." His tone changed into a light one.
Hinata smiled in excitement.
The front gate of the Hyuga Compound
The boys, Shikamaru, Sai, Kiba, Lee and Naruto arrived in the horse-drawn carriages. Invitees to the wedding including Might Guy, sixth Hokage Kakashi, Kurenai Yuhi, the sand siblings, remaining Konoha 11 were present to witness the wedding door games! Hiashi has also joined in to see the fun. The photography and video team was present to capture moments.
"Here goes the troublesome part," Shikamaru groaned in reluctance
"Hey Shikamaru, if you're going to laze off how are we going to win against the girls!" Kiba said, his competitive spirit evident.
"C'mon guys it's my wedding, we all signed up to do this! Just think of a game plan" Naruto said. He then proceeded to the front double door, knocking very loudly.
"Who are you looking for?" a collective voices of girls answered.
"MY BRIDE!" Naruto replied in his loud voice.
"What's her name?"
"Hinata!"
"Hinata who?"
"HINATA HYUGA!" Naruto's voice suggested obnoxiousness; he wants to see his bride so much!
Sakura appeared out of the front door.
"What's her name going to be today"
"Hinata Uzumaki!"
"Thank you the right answer!"
Hanabi, ino and Tenten appeared out of the door. The bridal party each wore lavender kimonos with flower motifs tightened with a dark purple obi belt sporting the same flower motifs.
"Unfortunately before you see your bride, you have to past through a series of obstacles." Hanabi announced, the boys knew this was coming.
"First Phase!" Ino announced is "Are you strong enough! 2 of you need to do 60 push ups and other 3, do the plank for 2 minutes!"
"WHAT TRAINING ON MY WEDDING DAY!"
"don't complain Naruto, all of us are going to do it" Shikamaru grumbled
On the contrast Lee was very happy to show his strength to every one "C'mon everyone show 'em the power of youth!"
Might Guy proud of his student, smiled as he sat on his wheelchair. Tenten on the other hand laughed to herself and thought some things will never change.
Kiba whilst competitive struggled as he paused every 10 push ups to take a breath. Sai too was gritting his teeth as he keeps pushing his body, struggling to keep them off the ground.
"BOYS DROP YOURSELF TO THE GROUND ALL OF YOU ARE STARTING ALL OVER AGAIN!"
Shikamaru's ears were going red as he yearned for his two minutes of pain to end. Lee as usual showed no signs of slowing down. As for Naruto doing the plank, he showed a face of frustration asking to himself why does he have to do this to win over Hinata!
"Okay times up! Next the second phase: Are you Smart enough! Do the human pyramid, Naruto on top, then answer bunch of questions, get them wrong, pas us money! Hope you brought lots of cash with you!" Thankfully Naruto brought many, he was warned of this.
"Naruto you lucky groom!" Kiba complaint with sweat on his forehead.
The boys with the help of Gaara and Kankuro assembled to form the human pyramid. Shikamaru, Kiba and Sai were at the bottom, Gaara , Lee and Kankuro formed the middle line. Naruto of course was at the top of the human pyramid.
"Righto, first question, What was Hinata's favourite childhood toy?" Hanabi asked.
"WHAT! This must be Hanabi's doing!" Naruto shouted in protest, Hinata never told him her favourite toy when she was little, that never came up in conversations.
"No point arguing Naruto, 10 seconds to answer!" Tenten shouted
"Oh umm, a doll?"
"What's the name of the doll, what kind of doll she is?"
"I DON'T KNOW ANY DOLLS OKAY!" Naruto comically lashes out at the girls, only for the bridal party and other invitees to laugh at the expense of Naruto.
"3, 2, 1…. Time's up! The answer was Chikako from Konoha Girl, hand up $20!"
"I didn't even know Hinata owned a Konoha Girl doll, she never told me!" Naruto grudgingly reached for his pocket and handed the $20 to Sakura.
"She still has it you know, anyways question 2. What stretches does Hinata do in the morning or before training?""
"She does the split, scorpion, oversplit, tilts and the back bend!" Naruto answered. Thank Lord Hokage he knew this one, he does not want to lose his cash or be thought of not knowing Hinata very well.
"What's the back bent call?" Hanabi ask, "torturing" Naruto for a more detailed answered
Oh gosh. He knew this one, he just needs to remember it. "The c-c-cambré!"
"Yes, you watched Hinata trained you better knew this one." Hanabi answered.
3 more questions and Naruto managed to make it through the third phase: Are You Brave Enough? Challenges include passing a seaweed snack with their mouth to each other by sucking until it reached Tenten who receives the seaweed if the passing was successful.
Laughter rippled throughout the invitees watching, as the boys struggled to pass it to each other. At one point Sai and Lee looked like they had a "passionate" moment while Sai put so much effort in just trying to get the seaweed to stick to Lee's mouth as it kept falling off.
Another challenge in the phase is for Naruto as the groom to take off his shoes and hold a lipstick on his toes, and he would try to apply it to his groom. After all the groom had lipsticks on, albeit very sloppy, have to kiss Naruto on the cheek leaving lipstick mark. The audience roared as Naruto tries REALLY hard to apply a lipstick held between his toes to his groomsmen and the hilariously sloppy result of the lipsticks on their faces. The roaring become deafening as the groom kiss Naruto all over his face ( though not on the lips), leaving what seem to be hundreds of lipstick marks.
Hanabi held her stomach in giggles as she tried so hard to not fall over.
Meanwhile Hinata who was watching it with her Byakugan in her room, chuckled in glee seeing her groom and his groomsmen goofing during the door game. She never thought that she would have so much fun while using her Byakugan.
Last Phase is "How willing are you to get your bride?"
Challenges include, tasting four extreme flavours. This includes Sweet, Sour, Spicy and Bitter as marriage may go through these flavours. The bridesmaid brought out: an overly sweetened Chocolate Bar, squeezed lemon juice for sour, Wasabi for Spiciness and Ginger for bitter. Every boys tasted each flavour, reaching out for water in every spoonful to the amusement of everybody watching.
The second last challenge includes Naruto singing a very soppy, cheesy love song to Hinata, to "prove" his love to her.
"Okay Naruto, you have to sing Unconditionally by Katy Perry, very loudly so Hinata can hear you all the way in her room" Sakura declared
"But you know me, I can't sing!"
"Sing or you won't get Hinata!"
As Naruto reads off the lyrics from the laptop, he fails to keep up with the rhythm, failing to display any sense of musicality and artistry as he sings trying to "impress" Hinata.
"C'mon louder Naruto!" The whole groomsmen and bridal party cheer for Naruto to sing in a high raucous voice
"You know I'm failing this!"
"As long as Hinata can hear you it's fine!
"Unconditional! Unconditionally I will love you unconditionally!" His discordant voice managed to travel through the hallways of the Hyuga compound to Hinata's bedroom.
As the song finished, the audience clapped in laughter despite the redness in Naruto's face.
"let's go Naruto, last challenge, find whose hand is Hinata's whilst blindfolded, no sage mode!"
Naruto whined, after bursting his vocal cords he still needs to get through to another challenge. He suddenly found himself blindfolded as he enters Hinata's room. He stood in the middle of a circle, with the bridal party and Hinata herself surrounding him. He felt each hand from each girl, one was tough with strength (Tenten), one was too small and childlike (Hanabi) he almost mistook it for Hinata and another had strong small fingers that he could easily tell this person had done lots of intricate and precise work over the years (Sakura). It wasn't until he found a hand that was petite, delicate and soft. However strength was buried underneath the tenderness of the skin, he was sure this is Hinata's. This was the same hand he held during the Shinobi War.
"This is you Hinata!"
Naruto heard a sea of clapping throughout the house. He then felt another hand from the same pair lifting up the blindfold. As his eyes are free, he sees Hinata sitting on her bed, in her wedding dress and almost could not recognise her.
"you're beautiful!" He said, he was speechless. Her eyes seemed brighter and bigger with the lavender and silver colour blended on her eyelids and her eyelashes extended. The colour of her lips, enhanced with a light pink shade and a peach blush smeared across her cheeks evenly adding a natural colour to her face.
He pulled her close, closed his eyes and his lips were against her lips. He feels her petite fingers on his hair. He gently placed his hands on her hips and felt the curve of her bone. They both heard the thunderous applaud throughout the house and gently pull away from each other.
As they leave the house, they hold hands together. As soon as they exit the compound, Hinata gasped at the pumpkin shaped, white horse drawn carriage in front of her.
"I got it just for you princess"
Hinata turned back to see her father smiling.
"You always wanted to be a princess when you were a little girl, you deserve to be a princess on your wedding day"
Hinata ran up to hug him
"Thanks Father"
"You're welcome, it's the least I can do. And be careful, you almost gave me a scare when you ran"
Hinata stepped inside the carriage, for the first time feeling like a princess she always dreamed of as a little girl.
Sorry If I'm late. it's summer here and it's so darn hot, can't stay near a computer during the day because of the heat
Readers, if you don't know what Wedding Door Games are, it's a Chinese Tradition. Look it up on YouTube or other sites there are tones of of explanation out there.
Anybody understood my references to real life stuff and other stories?
BTW if you've noticed the way I've spelled certain words differently, I'm Australian :)
Next Chapter is reception! Note that Hinata is travelling to the temple so Hinata is not riding the carriage with Naruto yet. I won't cover the temple bit, but the reception is going to be fun!
Hope you enjoyed this chapter
xoxo
Sunny
