"Are you nervous, Hinata-chan?" Akane asked as she noticed that Hinata continued to push her index fingers together showing her nervousness.
"I mean do you think that I picked the right dress? What if he doesn't like this dress?" Hinata was firing off questions left from right about her doubts in her appearance.
Hiashi cleared his throat as if he was going to speak but when he glance over to Akane, he sent a mental message that she should handle his daughter's doubts or he might make them worse than they already are.
Akane leaned over to her companion and gestured for her to come closer to her, "Yes?"
"I know without a doubt that Naruto will be fighting those other male suitors off of you even if his hands were tied behind his back. Besides you already promised me that I would have the first dance with you." Akane stated in a soft manner so that Hiashi could not hear what they were whispering.
Hiashi noticed that his indigo haired daughter nodded at whatever the raven-haired girl told her as he noticed that her facial expressions eased from her earlier look.
"I wonder what this place is going to look like…after all the Uchiha's are hosting this party." Akane expressed her curiosity as she tried to look out the window but found her dress quite restricting to a lot of free-range movement.
"Hey did you hear anything about who else is attending this party, Hinata?" Akane asked as she decided to pass the time by talking about the party, when they felt the limo come to a stop.
"Pretty much everyone from high school and their families and a couple of other people like my dad's friends as well." Hinata answered Akane's question with no signs of hesitation, which brought a smile on her face.
"It'll be like a huge class reunion, don't you think, Hinata-chan?" Akane inquired about her feelings on seeing everyone again, two years after they graduated.
"I guess you can say something like that…but you know how we act around each other so I don't think it would be any type of problems." Hinata gave her a genuine answer to Akane's question.
'I am so grateful to have a friend like Hinata…she doesn't see anything wrong with anyone and can often see the good in even the worse of people. They can't help but stand in awe of her pure innocence. I'll be on my best behavior around her that is…' Akane thought, as she knew one particular person, who was attending as well, did not want her to be happy.
"What are your feelings on seeing everyone come together again for this special event?" Hinata inquired about Akane's feeling as well, since she wanted to know the answer to that question.
"It's going to be a show…I guarantee you that…" Akane laughed while her right eyebrow twitched when she laughed.
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"We got here pretty quickly." Itachi announced to the group in the limousine with him after sticking his head out of the window to see that they had just pulled into a long line of similar cars like they were in.
"The place that I reserved was only fifteen to twenty minutes away from the house and then you had to include the time it took to pick up Naruto. So all in all the ride was longer for him than us." Sasuke stated to his older brother when he looked over to Naruto's direction as he looked as if he was taking a catnap.
"Sasuke dear, do you mind waking Naruto up? After all we are practically here." Sasuke heard his mother instructed him as he looked over to a snoozing Naruto, as he knew that he was the close to the blonde haired dobe.
He leaned over and hit him in the head, which force Naruto up with a confused look on his face, "Uh…where am I?"
"I swear dobe you can fall asleep at the weirdest times ever! We are just a block away from the party." Sasuke belittled his blonde hair companion with his arms crossed and his left leg over the other.
"Then how about you wait for fifty minutes in a limousine without being the least bit sleepy!" Naruto fired back when they felt the car turn a corner when the driver stopped the car altogether.
"Alright everyone, be on your best behavior and try not to steal the limelight from each other." Maiko gave advice to everyone in the car when the door opened and cameras began to flash instantly.
"Well I will see you on the inside then little brothers." Itachi stated after giving them a military like salute with a smile on his face and exited out of the black limo.
The instant Itachi's feet touched the red carpet; Sasuke and Naruto swore they could hear all the women reporters screaming their lungs off for an interview with the ever-elusive Itachi.
"Well they save the best two for last I guess," Naruto joked as he made his way over to where the door was opened with Sasuke close behind him.
The flashes of the paparazzi sent a rush of excitement for both the blonde haired friend and the navy blue haired friend.
Sasuke knew how the public viewed him would be a key part in for his father to trust his business over to him, "We have seen you on more than one occasion with Sakura Haruno, from the Haruno family that owns hospitals. Is there anything more than a friendship there?"
"No, nothing more then friends besides we went to high school together and briefly dated then but other then that we are good friends." Sasuke maintained his face as he cut his eyes over to where Naruto was answering some questions.
"How long have you been knowing Sasuke Uchiha?" a reporter asked as they had a camera in his face.
"We are childhood friends so you do the math, oh wait, he can tell you himself. Sasuke come over here." Naruto's exuberant personality was still showing when he flagged him down.
'What does this dobe want now?' he thought as he wondered what Naruto had up his sleeve in order for him to call him over there.
"These lovely people would like your confirmation on how long have I known you?" Naruto asked as he had placed his arm around his friend's shoulder.
"Ever since we were little, isn't that what you told them?" Sasuke asked as he had looked at Naruto, who had a look of satisfaction on his face.
"Let's go in," Sasuke told his friend who still had the wide smile on his face, as he knew he took pleasure in proving that the media had something wrong.
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Akane could no longer help her curiosity as she wondered when they were going to arrive, "Driver, how far are we away from the designated place?"
"Yes, we are just in a line of limos, ma'am." Their driver responded with a polite tone as Akane silently grew nervous just like Hinata had did earlier when they were in the car.
"Dad, do you want to get out first? After all we can escape the press when they noticed that you are there?" Hinata was serious with her question when she asked her father.
"Sure I don't see why not, but if you do get caught, you have Akane right there with you." Hiashi reassured his daughter when they felt the car turn a corner and pulled to a complete stop.
"We are here." The driver said as she exited the driver's seat and made her way around the silver limousine and opened the rear door allowing them to exit.
Like Hiashi said he would, he exited the car, when the girls could tell from the flashes of the cameras that there had to be tons of paparazzi to cover this event.
Akane had to scooted over to the edge as she lifted herself from the white limousine with ease before turning around to extend her hand towards Hinata, who was making her way out of the car.
"As you can see Konoha Hyuga family has been completed with the arrival of retired Martial Artist, Hiashi Hyuga and his daughter Hinata Hyuga. It seem as if her friend of some odd years now, Akane Sayuri is along with them. There has been rumors floating around about the crash of the Sayuri enterprise but obvious that is not true if she has appeared at this event. Let's see if we can get them for interviews." A woman reporter for a gossip column reported towards a video camera.
"Ms. Hyuga looking stunning in white and Ms. Sayuri looking fabulous in black, can we ask you some questions?" the woman asked them when they were briefly passing over.
Akane looked at Hinata who nodded her head, "I don't see why not then, ask away?"
"Is it true that you have been seeing Sasuke Uchiha?" the woman asked as she stuck the microphone towards her direction.
"I mean yeah, we had classes together when we were in high school so I was force to, it was so unfortunate, too." Akane skillfully dodge the answer to that question.
"Is there any truth to your father's business collapsing due to fraud, blackmailing and poor financial records?" the woman asked again as she extended the microphone towards Akane.
"Wow, you people sure do have a lot resources in order for you to come to that conclusion? I must say lady; you should be promoted from the gossip column to the news." Akane joked with the woman as this caught her offguard because she never did answer the question.
"Well I wish we could continue to have this conversation but it seems as if we are needed inside." Akane gave her parting words with a wave of her black-gloved hand.
Hinata looked at Akane with a look of confusion etched in her face, "Why did you tell that reporter about your business?"
Akane could tell Hinata wasn't skilled at talking to the press, "Well I actually did not answer any of her questions. I gave her the run around and when she thought she had the right answer I made it seem as if she was wrong with her guess."
Hinata could not help but look in awe at what Akane just told her, as she made sure to commit that to memory for later usages.
"Hinata!" "Akane!" a female voice was heard when they saw a bob of pink hair and green eyes in a black dress that stopped at her knees and was an off the shoulder dress with ruffles at the end of her dress as well as the sleeve.
Akane prepared herself for whatever may happen between her and the pink haired woman that was making her towards them.
"Hinata," Akane whispered to the indigo haired girl as she looked up at her taller companion, "Yes, what is it?"
"It was only for some people that I would be glad to see here except for one person…" Akane could not finish her sentence when the pink bob of hair was now standing next to them.
"It's so good to see you two again, and my don't you two look like the stunning couple there is here." The pink bob complimented as she hugged Hinata, while Akane merely air kissed both sides of her cheek.
"I must say Sakura-chan, that dress does suit you." Hinata returned the compliment to the pink haired girl whose green eyes shone with what looked like anxiousness.
Sakura had broke from them to look at herself and even gave her a twirl to show off her shape in the dress, "Why thank you, I got it from this new boutique called Papillon Rose. Ino had showed it to me a while back and I thought that their dress their would suit me."
Hinata was about to say something when Akane was quicker than her, "My, we should visit that shop for another occasion like this, shouldn't we Hinata?"
Hinata could only nod her head in agreement as Akane held her hand steadfast as Sakura began to look at the both of them with a confused look in her face.
"Is there something wrong?" Sakura asked the raven-haired girl who only nodded her head in a no fashion, so she could erase in hints of how she hated the pink haired woman guts.
"Well everyone is here and has taken their seats, do you want me to take you to them?" Sakura decided to ignore what just happened before stepping aside and pointed to where everyone they knew were seating down or were seated.
Akane knew she had to separate herself from the pink haired witch as something was off about Sakura and only she got the notion of it. "You go ahead we'll be right behind you."
"What's wrong Akane?" Hinata asked when she looped her arm through hers and with a smile on her face escorted her down the steps.
