Day 2


The moving process had been streamlined by a team of both Hyuga and Uchiha moving boxes and furniture in the week or so before the actual wedding day. Of course, that still left Itachi and Hinata to unpack their belongings, as they had been doing all morning.

The house itself-provided by the clan-was near Itachi's childhood home, two floors. All the inner doors slid and had paper windows, though the outer doors were on a hinge. The ground floor was divided into two large sections by the staircase: a front room and the kitchen and dining area. The dining area was partitioned off with a movable divider. There was a toilet room and a large storage closet at the back of the stairwell.

He made his way upstairs. There was a box of toiletries at his hip. Hinata was leaning on the rail at the top; he saw a flare of chakra via Sharingan. The way Hyuga used Byakugan...was going to take some getting used to.

"Have you decided?" he asked.

"I...I don't know," she said, in the tone of someone who knew what they wanted but did not wish to say. "Um…"

"It's your choice."

"O-okay...um. The back room?" She pointed at the door at the end of the hallway.

She made a small noise at the back of her throat and added, belatedly, "Thank you."

He jostled the box a bit. "There's...no need for that."

"...Sorry." She slipped past him and went down the stairs.