Chapter Three
Here it is! I hope you guys like this one, it won't be very long I think cuz I don't have much to say about Hinata. So plz review, yada yada, tell your friends….and stuff.
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Hinata sat in the hard, straight-backed chair and winced as her maids fixed her hair and makeup.
"So sorry Madam Hinata." Tenten, her lady-in-waiting, said as she pulled Hinata's hair into a tight bun. "There, finished." She said, stepping back from the chair.
Hinata continued to look at her reflection in the mirror, not moving even when her maids bowed and left the room. Hinata sighed, examining herself.
She ran her hand though her dark, bluish hair, and blinked her violet eyes.
Tenten recognized that look she was giving herself. "Hinata, don't look like that! You are beautiful and I would love to have pretty eyes like yours!" Tenten sighed. Hinata looked down at her huge, itchy, and very heavy dress. Then she looked at Tenten's thin and very flattering maid's outfit. She was used to this routine, Tenten was always saying she was pretty, but having a friend say that wasn't the same as having a boy, especially one you liked, tell you that. Hinata had never been with a boy, she had never kissed one. You were not supposed to kiss anyone other than your betrothed, but most princesses and princes would anyway. She had never even dated, her father had introduced her to many princes, but they were all full of themselves and thought that a silent wife who never spoke to them would be a good choice. Her mother was kind enough to see that she needed a man who would love her and listen to her, so they were all rejected. Tenten, however, could date whoever she wanted, and do just about whatever she wanted. Right now, Tenten had fallen in love with Hinata's cousin, Neji, and but because Hinata was next in line for the crown, Neji did not have to marry a princess, so they could be together.
"Sure, whatever you say Tenten." Hinata whispered softly.
Tenten rolled her eyes and suddenly stood up straight as the messenger boy came in.
"The King and Queen wish to speak with you, Lady Hinata."
"I-I will be right there." She said nervously. Hinata walked slowly and stiffly after him into the foyer, where her parents were waiting. "Yes Father, Mother?" She asked. Her father gave her a stern look and Hinata stared at the floor, as usual.
"Hinata. You are twenty-two years old! Why have you not married?" He practically yelled at her. She flinched back and looked pleadingly at her mother. Sadly, her mother was just standing there; she couldn't stand up to the King either.
"I-I haven't found…the right one."
"HAVEN"T FOUND THE RIGHT ONE?!?!" He roared. "I DON'T CARE IF HE'S THE 'RIGHT ONE' YOU MUST MARRY!" He calmed down slightly and continued. "This is sudden, I know, but you are a princess for god's sake! And I'll be damned if I don't marry you off so Neji will proceed you! You will marry someone by Master Sasuke of Konaha's coronation!" He turned and was about to storm off, but then spun around and said, "AND, if you do not marry, I will marry you off to Master Sasuke!" Then he swept himself from the room.
Her mother hurried forward and hugged Hinata.
"I'm so sorry, Hinata. His mind is made up." She whispered.
"It's ok Mother. I have to get married sometime; this might be good for me." The Queen stepped back and looked her in the eyes. She ran a finger across Hinata's cheek and sighed, then followed the King. Hinata went up to her room,
and cried.
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There it is! I don't really like this chapter, I might revise it sometime. Sorry I used 'marry' SO many times. Please review and stuff!
