Hey guys I'm back with chapter 2. Thanx to the two people who reviewed. I'll try to update as much as I can but it's going to be kind of hard with my schedual. Fear not I will finish this story though. I would like suggestions of pairs. I am definetly doing Naru/Hina but i need some suggestions for other pairs so if you could be really really kind and tell me what pairs would be kool to use that would be excellent. So thanx and I hope you enjoy chapter 2

The other side of Konoha was where the rich resided. The streets were filled with beautiful multimillion dollar houses that looked like they weren't inhabited. The upper class of society was mostly made up people with high paying jobs, who were respectable law abiding citizens, and well educated. The children of the upper class of society reflected their parents in every way. They were clean, well behaved, disciplined, and brilliant children. The Hyugga family was no exception to this expectation. All of the children were expected to be perfect in every single way.

The Hyugga family was at the top of the social ladder. The family had been wealthy and well respected for many generations. They had to maintain a certain standard and their children had to live up to this standard. As a result all of the Hyugga children had to be perfectionists.

There is a certain burden that comes with being the oldest child of a family, but being the oldest child of a well respected family the burden to uphold the familiy name was great. As the oldest child of the head of Hyugga the burden was on Hinata to uphold the dignity of the Hyugga family. The only problem was that she was incapable of meeting the harsh standard that the family set. Her grades in school were mediocre and she had no athletic talent or artistic talent to speak of. On top of that her stuttering turned a lot of people off. In short Hinata was the shame of the Hyugga clan.

Hinata watched the sun setting from her bedroom of the unnecessarily gigantic house that she and her family inhabited. The setting sun made her think of her deceased mother. Her mother had always loved sunsets. She always used to say that the women who died in childbirth helped the sun to set at the end of each day. The irony of it all was that she died during the sunset in childbirth with Hinata's unborn younger brother who died as well. Both of them lay beneath the Konoha cemetery. Hinata's father Hiashi never talked about Hinata's mother. There were no pictures of her around the large house. He never went to visit her either. It was almost as if she didn't exist. Hanabi being too small to remember her mother when she was alive and too wrapped up with all of her school work and competitions didn't really think about her missing mother. The only person who kept the memory of her mother was Hinata. Hinata had the only picture in the house of her mother. Every time she felt really discouraged she would look at her mother's picture for strength.

She had her mother's looks. The thick dark blue hair cut short, with that same round face. She was even built like her mother, short and curvy. The only thing she didn't have of her mother was her eyes. Instead she had the silver eyes of her father that marked her as a Hyugga.

Hinata tore her attention away from the sunset to look at the number of school books on her desk. It wasn't like she didn't try at school. She did all her homework and studied for all her tests. The only problem was that her lack of competitiveness and aggressiveness and her fear held her back from studying all out, and as a result she never reached the top of her class. It wasn't the fact that she wasn't a prodigy like her older cousin and little sister that bothered her. It was her father's disapproval that really hurt the most. There were times that Hinata actually tried to make dean's list and be the child that her father always wanted but every time she tried she failed. She just couldn't do it. Those failures were enough to make her give up hope in herself and her abilities.

Though Hinata doubted herself she still had a dream. For as young as she could remember she wanted to help people. Her mother had a small garden in the back yard which she would grow herbs to help heal ailments. Many people would come to her in search of a remedy for an ache or pain. She taught Hinata a few things about healing. Hinata found herself fascinated with methods of healing certain ailments. Not long she found that she was as good as her mother in healing. Her mother always used to tell her that she was a natural. It didn't take her long to realize that she could use her natural talent at healing to help people by becoming a doctor. Hinata would take out books from the library about healing and medicine trying to read everything she could that would help her to achieve her dream. The only problem was that her dream didn't fit in with the future that the Hyugga had planned for her.

The Hyugga had a huge business empire. They had companies in twenty countries. The head of the company was currently Hinata's father Hiashi. As the oldest child of the head of the company she was supposed to take over. Hinata hated business. She had no desire to take over the company. She knew her father wouldn't take no for an answer and she chose to keep her dream a secret. As hard as she tried to keep her secret one day it got out.

When Hinata was twelve she had kept a diary. She didn't have any friends and the one person in her family she could talk to was dead. She needed a way to vent. The diary was a way to vent. Inside that small dark blue book were all of her thoughts in feelings. Naturally her biggest dream would be in there as well. The diary went into a secret box she hid in her closet. The box had many other valuables like her mother's necklace, some herbs and seeds, a small fox figurine that was given to her by her father a long time ago, a diary with a lock that she had never been able to open which had been her mother's, a picture of her little sister as a baby, a picture of her father and deceased uncle who was her father's twin brother, a drawing that she got a gold star for in second grade, An A paper that her sister wrote, a wooden top that use to belong to her older cousin, and the picture of her mother. With all of the fancy valuables in that large expensive house that box contained what seemed to most like the least expensive and important things in the world. To Hinata this stuff was more valuable than her house and all the houses in that over priced neighborhood.

Her younger sister Hanabi who was seven at the time found out about her secret diary. Hanabi was curious and when her sister had left the house one day went and took the diary from its hiding place. Hanabi took the book back to her room and read it. Now even at seven years old Hanabi was no fool. She saw her sister's goal for the future and knew how it would enrage her father to hear about her sister's wish to go against the destiny laid out for her by the family. Things between the two sisters weren't good. They had a terrible relationship for many reasons. The first reason was that Hiashi created a lot of competitiveness between his two daughters. The second reason was that because of Hinata's position as the eldest child of the family head Hanabi wouldn't inherit as much or rise to a great position in the company. For that Hanabi resented and hated Hinata. The last and final reason was that because Hanabi was so competitive and worked hard to excel in school she didn't have time to talk to Hinata.

Hanabi decided to show her sister's diary to her father. It would make him favor her and at the same time she could get the sister she hated in trouble. She closed the box without looking inside and left the room quietly.

That night when Hinata got home from her tutor there was holy hell in the Hyugga house.
" You" Hiashi growled as the timid Hyugga entered the house.

" Y yyyess ff fa tther." She answered

Hinata was scared. Her father always ignored and day after day she prayed for his attention. This wasn't the kind of attention she was hopping for. Thoughts of what she did went through her mind from report cards to notes from her teacher. The last thing she thought of was the diary.

" What do you have to say about this?" Hiashi questioned coldly.

Hinata stared at her precious diary in the shaking hand of her father and felt her heart stop. Questions went through her mind. How did he find it? Or Who told him? The biggest question on her mind was what she would do now that he found out about her secret.

" Nnnoothing fat t tther." She whispered.

" Your damn right it's nothing." He said with that same cold voice.

" What the hell do you mean you want to be a doctor?" " Is the Hyugga business not good enough for you?" "If you honestly think it is you can just walk out of that door and never show your face in this house again." "You really are a simple child." "Sometimes I wish it had been you instead of my son that died."

Hinata was struck dumb. It was the first time he made a reference to his dead son. She couldn't cry, she couldn't think, She couldn't move. It gave her father an opportunity to continue.

" Anyway," he sneered" They only take smart people to be doctors."" The last time I checked you weren't a smart person." " You couldn't become a doctor even if you tried." " This is what I think of your dream." Hiashi said with that same hurtful sneer as he took the book and ripped it up. The pieces of what was once Hinata's thoughts feelings and dreams fluttered to the ground. Hinata felt her heart break as she watched the pieces of what was once her best friend spread out on the five hundred dollar carpet from Venice Italy. Hinata didn't notice her father leaving the room. She just sat alone on the floor with the pieces of paper on the floor and the pretty paintings on the wall that seemed to mock her. Hinata gathered the pieces of paper and put them in her box and never looked at them again. She knew she was being silly. The pieces of paper were unrecognizable and she couldn't put them back together again. Though the pieces were impossible to decipher she couldn't let them go. So they sat quietly in the dark box with the other great treasures of her life.

That was four years ago. At sixteen Hinata was no braver than the twelve year old girl who watched her father crush her dreams. In school she was quiet and shy. She had no friends. Nobody talked to her because they thought she was stuck up. At the end of the day all Hinata had was herself and a memory of her mother. Hinata sighed and closed her eyes wishing to be anybody than herself.

Below Hinata's window there was somebody watching her.

It was her older cousin Neji. Neji was a handsome seventeen years old. With a thin graceful yet muscular body standing at 5 foot 8 he was quite a sight to behold. He had the silver eyes of a Hyugga only hardened with the hatred and bitterness of his life. He was born into the lower part of the family and for that the family treated him like dirt. There would be no inheritance for him. He wouldn't be able to work in the company. His skills would have to be used to make a life for himself outside of the Hyugga empire. He watched his father treated like dirt his whole life just for being the second born son of the head of the family and taken away and killed just to save the family's name. Neji worked his whole life vowing to be better than any Hyugga ever was. He took all AP classes and excelled at them. He played many sports and was the student body president. In short he was perfect. The only thing he didn't have was respect in his family. That was the one thing he wanted.

Neji didn't like Hinata. She had what he wanted the respect and acknowledgment of the family and she didn't work for it. On top of that she was stupid and simple, and lazy and constantly brought shame to the Hyugga with all of her foolishness. He knew that she was probably like the rest of the Hyugga who thought they were better than he was just because of their birth right. He would show them one day. Until then he would have to put up with the cruelty of his family. With a great sigh, Neji leaned against the wall and stared at the darkening sky thinking about his father and his future.

Whew that was chapter two. What did u think. I'm always looking for critisism be it postive or negative. PLEASE REVIEW!

I'll be back with chapter three this week or next week. I dunno only time will tell. I will introduce more charecters next chapter so stay tuned. lol

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