Hinata's POV

I rolled a small tube of something around in my hands, searching for a label to tell me what it was. There was a big brand name written down the side and the word black on the bottom, when I shook it i could hear liquid swirl around inside but I still couldn't work it out. Unscrewing the lid, there was a stick attached to the inside with what looked like a bit of pipe cleaner on the end. Vaguely remembering something about it from the other girls at school I brought it up to my eyes. It was mascara, I think. When I put it on my eyelashes seemed to have grown and my eyes looked different, more defined. My plan could work.

When I was still going to the Konoha primary school, I could vaguely remember Sakura and Ino coming in one morning with make up on. It was amazing how different they looked to me, I'm used to how they look now, but if I could replicate the effect on my own face there was a chance that I could get away without having to face Naruto again, at least not as myself.

I repeated the process with several different products; foundation, eye-shadow, several shades of lipstick, eyeliner, blusher and I even tried one or two new hairstyles before I settled with leaving it down, after all he hadn't seen my hair as it was. Afterwards I inspected my reflection in the mirror and was satisfied, I wasn't anything like myself.

Naruto's POV

The girl who came through the door was obviously a Hyuga, the eyes gave her away immediately. But she was unlike any other Hyuga that I've seen, her face was pale but clumsily plastered with makeup and her steps were small and awkward. Still she was a Hyuga and if there were Hyuga members living in the sand village then there was a chance, just a chance, that she knew where Hinata was.

"you're from the Hyuga clan, aren't you?"

".....! Y-yes" She sounded just like her, maybe her stutter wasn't actually a bad habit, maybe its just genetic

"and you live in the sand village"

"...yes"

"then do you know a girl called Hinata? She left our village a few years ago. Have you seen her?"

"Huh" Her face was puzzled so I decided she might have seen her but not noticed.

"Ummm... She's small with short hair, a fringe and bangs".... she just sat there "She usually wears a beige jacket with fur and..."

"Yes, yes I've seen her, she's, uh, she left to go to a high ranked school near the sand village" Heh, that sounded like Hinata, always wanting to be that little bit stronger, I liked that about her.

"Really? How's she doing? I haven't heard from her in ages!" I could swear that she was blushing under that make-up but I think it might have simply been a combination of the light playing tricks and way too much blusher

"I-I didn't come here to talk about her, could you just tell me where my room is and whatever it is you wanted to talk to me about can wait."

"uh yeah, all I wanted to tell you is that there's a council meeting at four" I hadn't thought about where she would sleep all of the rooms were taken, only the elders, the hokage and their family stayed in the main building. I couldn't ask her to share a room that would make me look awful, after all i had my own room, because i made Sakura sleep in the room next door instead of with me, I shuddered at the thought of what she could have been doing in there, thank goodness she wouldn't be there anymore.... Of course! I could give the Hyuga lady her room.

"I'll take you to your room now" I was feeling a little proud of myself "Hey, what's your name?"

"Hyuga" I started leading her down the corridor

"Yeah, I know, but what's your first name?"

"Just call me lady Hyuga please"

"But why?"

"I-I can't tell you, not yet" She stopped walking and looked at me; I knew I was pulling a face but the curiosity was bugging me.

Hinata's POV

When we got to the room Naruto reminded me of the meeting and then left me to unpack my things. I intended to go straight in and take the suffocating make-up off without even a glance at my surroundings but that was impossible.

It was all pink. The carpet, the walls, the ceiling, the furniture, it was all pink to the point of being ridiculous. There was a canopy bed, like the princesses have in fairytales, at the left side of the room, framed with various posters and pictures(mainly of boys, I ripped these off the wall immediately)and on the right side of the room there was a wardrobe, its doors left open, a dressing table and a chest of draws that were all pulled out at different angles. Giving the room a feeling that it had been left in a rush. What caught my attention, though, was the mirror on the dressing table. Someone, probably the girl who last used the room had scrawled a message over the pink tinted glass "BASTARD, I WONT FORGET THIS" it was written in a thick, creamy, red substance that I took to be lipstick.

Who was it from? I pondered the thought while removing the layers of make-up from my face. I guessed that it could have been an angry girlfriend's message. When I began to find the other hate-messages(things like "DIE" or "YOULL REGRET THIS" I started to build up an image of her in my mind. I knew she liked pink and that her hand writing was flawlessly neat, so I put her in a fuchsia skirt suit. The amount of lipstick that she obviously owned (I found discarded and empty lipstick cases, all rose coloured, everywhere) made her obsessed with appearances giving her dyed blonde hair and a heavily made up face. And it went on like that until I came up with a weird Ino/Sakura crossbreed. I was so entertained that I almost forgot about the council meeting.

I had to run out of the door without even attempting my make-up and hoping ge wouldn't recognise me.

Naruto's POV

I looked at the clock again, the Hyuga lady was late, and I was worried.

What could be taking so long?

Everyone was shuffling around in their seats, restless and anxious to get the meeting over and done with. They were so relieved when she walked through the door looking like shed been dragged through a hedge backwards.

Then she started to argue with the doorman in whispers

Hinata's POV

"Just tell me your first name"

"No"

"But I have to announce you" poor man, he was only trying to do his job.

"No"

"Please, Lady"

"No"

"But..." at this point my father stood up, exasperated with me, he'd had enough of my hiding and so he told me...

"Hinata Hyuga, stop arguing with the poor man and sit down already!"

And all I could do was stand there and think Oh crap!

Yay! Exams are finally over! Thank you for waiting