Beauty and the Ice cube

by Mewmewmemint

chapter 2

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Turning around Tenten meet the eye of her sickly father who was leaning on the wall for support with a thick wool blanket around over him.

"Father your supposed to be in bed sleeping or at least resting!" scolded Tenten at her father while guiding him back into his room. "You get in bed and I'll go to prepare you your medicine."

"Tenten what happened to you. Are you okay?" asked her father before Tenten could even get the chance to turn around. "What happened?"

"huh? What do u mean?" then she remembered her wound on her arm from the white wolf. " Oh, you mean this? It's nothing really I just...ah...just got ...my arm just got snagged on a thorny vain that's all. It's not deep or any thing. So don't worry about me and just worry about you self."

Tenten then walked out of the room, closed the door, then exhaled with guilt. She had always hated laying to her father like that but if she had told him the truth he would gotton upset and worried then say something along the lines of not allowing her to go to the village by her self again. She had to go to the village though to visit Dr.Haruno and his wife (A/N: Sakura's parents) to get her fathers medicine.

She went into the kitchen and started to boil water for tea that she usually puts her father's medicine in. Then headed to the cupboards to get some bandages out when all of a sudden there was a knock at the door.

Alarmed. I went to the door wondering who in the world would be here this late at night.

I opened the door to come face to face with a man in a cloak similar to hers but a lot more fancier and it looked like it was in better quality. The man had green eyes and brown shoulder length hair which was tied up in the back.

"Um, hello, how can I help you?" Tenten asked politely.

"Would you name happen to be Tenten?" asked the man. Tenten nodded her head yes and he continued, "I'm here on behalf of the Hyuga nobility to invite you and your family to come to the celebration of the young heir Hinata's birthday which is being held in three days from today at the Hyuga's main house. This invitation was sent by the Hyuga heir herself and she also asked me to tell you don't worry about cloth as she has sent this package too. Well I must be on my way now." then the messenger handed her a package in brown paper and started walking away to his home eagerly through the snow.

Hinata, Hinata, Tenten thought, you are surely a sweet girl. Tenten and the Hinata had been friends since... well... as long as Tenten could remember. Hinata was a nice, shy, and timid girl. When they hung out together a lot and they'd usually talk about all sorts of stuff other then about their families knowing they both were having a tough time with there family.

After Tenten had wrapped her wound and added the medicine to the tea for her father she went in her father's room to find him asleep. Gently shaking him awake which took her awhile because he was a heavy sleeper, just like herself, and gave him his tea.

"The door knocked a little while ago. Who was it?"asked her father who then took a sip of the warm tea.

" It was a Hyuga messenger sent by Hinata to invite me to her birthday celebration, which is probably a ball, and a dress I could wear." Tenten simply reply then to took her father's empty cup and put it back on the tray.

"Are you going to go?" Tenten's father asked raising his eyebrows and looking at her pointedly.

"I don't think I should go especially since you are sick. I'm sure Hinata will understand."

"You should go. Don't worry about me. I'm fine. Your dear friend Hinata's birthday only comes once a year." stated her father trying to convince her.

"No, I'd rather not."

"Go. I telling you to go Tenten. I want you to go. You need to be more sociable with others and move on with your life. You can't be taking care of me for ever. I want you to fall in love, have fun, make new friends, and take a breather. Okay?" her father said in a way she couldn't possibly say no to.

"Fine" she agreed. Then left the room and got ready for bed. She then grabbed the package with the dress in it and put it on her night stand deciding to unwrap it tomorrow.

Hope it's okay so far. Please tell me if you like it or not. I wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEARS!