Secrets
Of
A
Hyuuga
Chapter 7
My eyes started to open softly as the bright light hit my eyes.
"Morning, already." I whispered. This brought a soft smile to my face. I stretched out my pale arms making my whole body ache. I felt lazy today. Just resting upon my bed was so comfortable. Now I know why Shikamaru likes to do this!
"Hinata-sama." Someone mumbled. I turned my head to the direction of my door. There was Hyuuga Neji.
"You wasn't at breakfast this morning and they sent me to check on you." He mumbled.
"I overslept. Gomen. The Shikamaru side just got the best of me." I said. Neji formed a smirk. "Can I speak with you?" I asked. Neji nodded and walked in entirely. The sound of the door shutting woke up some of my lazy senses.
"Nani?" he asked. His voice was bitter and sent chills up and down my spine.
"I was thinking about yesterday and the days before. Gomen. I'm not sure if you are going to accept my apology but just know I am truly sorry. I did mean to offend you in any way." I said. No emotion was in Neji's eyes. Then he looked directly at me or so has it seemed.
"What's that?" he asked pointing towards my pillow. A small sparkle came from under it. Oops, my journal, I had left it yesterday.
"S-something for girls, ONLY!" I lied. Neji eyed me down again. He knew I was lying because of the faint blush I had sprayed on my face. He walked over to my bed and reached his hand under my pillow. I tugged at it and tugged over and over again but him being a Hyuuga male was quite strong than I was. I blushed trying to take his arm away from my journal. Soon I was up and about. I blushed and smiled playing with Neji until the journal fell out from my pillow.
"Girls, huh?" he asked. I snatched the journal from the floor.
"No! You can't look. Especially not you. You are my cousin." I said. Neji glanced around the room trying not to make eye contact with me. Then an expression of horror came to his face.
"Shit!" he said. I gave a question look to him. "The people. Haishi, the people!" he manages to say. The panicked and rushed over to my closet, ripping open the doors.
"Neji!"
"Sorry." He pulls out a kimono that I had got a little less than two years ago. "Put that on!" he said rushing me.
"What? Not with you in the room." I panicked. Him panicking made me panic. This was all chaos.
"Then go in your bathroom. Hurry. They will be here anytime now. If we are late then Haishi will have our heads when he comes back." He said rushing to find me some shoes.
"Neji!" I said grabbing his arm. It was not like him to rush and panic so this must have been very important. He took a deep breath and leaned closer towards me.
"Hurry up Hinata." He stated plainly. I was completely confused. This was the Neji I knew now but who was he before? I went to the bathroom and got washed up. I came out wear the pale lavender kimono. Neji was sitting on my bed fiddling with the sleeves of his own kimono.
"How…did you get…changed so quickly?" I asked dumbfound. Neji's showed his emotions. He wasn't to smirk again and again and again but instead he just eyed me down. He reminded me of Sasuke. Both were people I knew so well and yet we were so far from each other and different. I had honor in both and trusted them completely.
"Let's go." He said cutting me out of my comparison.
But, yet why are they rivals?
He walked me out of my room and into the dining area where a few men were sitting. My father was apart of this group and reading a scroll with them. The men spoke in Japanese only, which was easy for me because I actually liked speaking it.
"We should take you in as one of us. You are no longer Haishi-sama but now … Heizo from the Mihashi clan." An old crackled voice spoke.
"Who are those two?" another male said. My father looked back at Neji and me.
"So late?" he said.
"I'm sor-" Neji started to say but I cut him off.
"We wanted to be perfect, because anyone who works for the Hyuuga clan should have much respect." I said. Haishi gave a cold glare but a hard smirk.
"Very well. Neji you stay. Hinata you can go to the kitchen and help the other women." I bowed before my father and left to the kitchen. Pew. I let out a big breath that I kept inside me. Speaking to my father is a lot of trouble because if I say one wrong thing then everything goes wrong. Inside the kitchen was crazy!
"Hinata. We need your help. Make the onigiri please. There are 40 men excluding father. Each should get about two a day. There is about 3 days of walking." She said. Hanabi spoke fast and was running all around the place. I did the calculations inside my head. 40 men plus my father equal 41 men. 41X282. 82X3246. Two hundred and forty six onigiris need to be made.
6 hours later
Hanabi and I worked our buts off today. Each amid we had were working also and some of the Mihashi women. It was amazing. I cooked about 30 rice balls. I was really slacking off because of my morning laziness. I managed to make about 4 extra rice balls for later.
"I didn't know that feeding that many men was so much work." I said whipping the sweat from my forehead. Hanabi nodded in agreement.
"Never going to have kids." She said. I smiled. At times like this I enjoyed with Hanabi. At times we don't see eye to eye and fight a lot. Being that 'sweet kind hearted ninja' Neji said I am I tend to lose all the fights. I really love Hanabi so times like this are not to forget.
"Women we are taking off." Said a young boy from the dining room. I remember him. He was the one that asked who we were. Each person in the kitchen ran towards the dining room. They were packed up and ready to go. Neji was sitting down watching the men to their final adjustments.
Hanabi starting walking towards my father and I followed.
"Bye." I said bowing before him. He gave that same expression from earlier.
"You are improving, Hinata. Your personality is shining brighter." He said. I almost choked at his words. Was I living up to want he wants me to be? Soon every single man (except Neji) was out the house and with Haishi on his journey. That excited me. I ran back towards my room and grabbed my journal from the floor.
Dear my-little-secret,
What is the world today?
Not a simple question I believe. But I do want to know, what is the world today. Earlier my father told me I was improving. To me I thought that was on of the best thing that happened. When I was younger, I was a disgrace and now I seem to get better. This life might be something special. Maybe all the negative things that happened to me were meant to be. Or maybe all the bad things added up to something special. Maybe this life is worth living. I know that one little thing isn't just going to change my world around but it was a sign I believe. There are some downs like Naruto not liking me. It was heart breaking and I cried many times that day. I am extremely sorry for screaming at Kiba-kun and Shino-kun, that day. Maybe Naruto and I weren't meant to be? Or maybe he was also a sign. He was a sign to Uchiha Sasuke. I completely trust him. He is like Neji. They both want power and they act the same. They are the same but yet different. Why are they rivals? Plus they fight between everything. Right now I'm the case and they are fighting about if I should be with Sasuke or not. It's crazy. They should be friends not enemies. Sasuke. I don't know what I think about Sasuke at the moment. I think I love him but yet he could just be a friend. I told him one night that we are similar. I felt it at that moment and I know he did to. My life is changing completely. So journal of mine,;
What is this world today?
I closed my journal and stuffed it under my pillow.
"Neji! Hinata! Some people are here to watch us!" Hanabi called. I ran downstairs and saw the Sand ninjas from Suna.
"What up kid?" Temari said giving the hugest smirk I ever seen. The sand ninjas were going to watch us?
Finished! Yay! It took me forever because I had to make it perfect! Please review! Sorry, the next update should take awhile because my mom's birthday is on the 25th and mine is on Sept. 14! I can't wait! Drop a review, please.
