If there are any inconsistencies in my writing, please tell me so I can fix it! Heck, if something doesn't make enough sense or sounds strange tell me! Everything is a work in progress, and can never be finished unless you're dead!
On with the fic! Places do matter!
In Hinata's new mansion home
Hinata was led around the mansion complex by Maddie's hand. "C'mon, Hinata! I have an outfit I'm a little too big for, but I think it'll fit you, it's really cute, I promise! You don't mind skirts do you" Hinata found herself chuckling at Maddie's half-mad exuberance. It almost felt the way she always wanted to feel with Hinabi…almost like she had a sister, one's who laughter could infect the worst frown-case and make it turn for the better.
It was also strange, feigning blindness was a little odd, back in Konoha if someone was the Hyuuga eyes they immediately knew she saw everything. A sharp tug nearly throwing her forward, Hinata continued up some stairs and to her new room where a black and lavender skirt and shirt were laid out. Maddie giggled, I already laid it out on the bed when you were in the shower, by the way. I'll help you get dressed we only have an hour or so until the party, you know. KYA! I swear Hina, it's like I have a sister and a doll all at once! I love it!"
Hinata, who'd been fingering the skirt's black-lace trim, started a bit.
"S-sister? M-me?" she asked, trembling.
"Well, sure, think about it. My parents adopted you, so you're my sis at least in law." Maddie mused, rubbing her chin comically as though Hinata could see it.
"But…I thought," said Hinata pushing her fingertips together, "That sisters, um, they sh-shared secrets, and hung out t-together. And you know, things." Getting more nervous by the second Hinata began to fidget with the hem of the skirt.
"Is that all?" muttered Maddie, "Well, I'm new at this, so we'll just have to figure it out together. Won't we, Hina?" Picking up the shirt Hinata hadn't yet touched, Maddie held it up to Hinata, "Yep, should fit just right!"
-Later that night-
Once the party had gotten crowded Hinata was finally ready to step down the stairs. 'A fairytale entrance' Maddie called it, though Hinata could only vaguely grasp the meaning of what a fairytale was. A folk legend was the closest she could come to, really. Straightening the shirt and tugging it down a little to cover a pale, exposed midriff, she waited for her 'cue', whatever that word meant.
"Okay, folks," came Mr. Dwight's call. "You all know this party is being thrown for a reason, and here she is!" Ah, there it was. Slipping on the slim pair of dark glasses, the other ones were too 'bulky and hid too much of the face' for Maddie's tastes, she stepped out of the top of the staircase and started her decent.
Mr. Dwight continued once she was halfway down, "This is Hinata, our newly adopted daughter. She's kind, and a tad shy, and yes, she's wearing those because she's blind. Yes Kevin, blind. Welcome, Hinata!" Hinata completed her decent to applause. Blushing brightly, she waited for Maddie to step forward and begin introducing her to people. Then reminding herself that she was 'blind' and that introductions meant touching faces of the guests, she blushed brighter. Just on the verge of her finger-pushing nervous habit, Maddie showed up and all but dragged her away to another room where the party was gaining speed quickly.
"This is Gene, Hina," Maddie said, setting Hinata's hands on the face of a stubborn-looking girl with short hair and long dress.
"Err, Hi." They both said. Loud thumps sounded behind them and Maddie shrieked.
"Don't you dare, Kevin!" Kevin stilled, inches away from a cringing Maddie, obviously ready to leap onto her back. One of her eyes cracked open, looked around a little, before she straightened, lifted one fist high above her head and…SMACK! "You lunatic!" she shouted, dashing after him as he ran away, cackling all the way.
"Don't worry about that, it's pretty normal, sadly." Said another boy sitting next to Gene. He had green hair. It commanded Hinata's attention for a moment, before she shook it off. "Hey, I'm Gary, Gene here is my cousin." gently, one of his pink-painted hands pulled one of her hands to his face.
"H-hi."
"You look pretty in lavender." He said.
"Th-thanks."
'Oh, wow. He's prettier than Ino!' Thought Hinata. She traced his face a little, praying that the half-darkness of the party lighting at least shadowed her blush. Then her thumb slipped into something sticky.
"Oh! You wear lip-stuff?" she asked.
"Lip-stuff? Yeah, Lip-gloss, don't you?"
"Only what Maddie puts on me."
"Ah, well it looks good. Do you want to hear us—" Gary was drowned out a moment as a screaming Kevin and murderous Maddie scrambled over the couch.
"As I was saying! Do you want to hear us play, now?"
"Play, as in in-instruments?"
"Sure! Gary, Kevin, Maddie, and I made a band years ago!" said Gene. Hinata remembered the stringed instruments that traveling minstrels played at Hinabi's fifth birthday party.
"I'd like that." Hinata whispered. Gary and Gene grinned.
Twenty minuets later Hinata was seated inform of a tangle of wires, facing a band she had not quiet expected.
"One, two, one two three four!" started Gene on drums. Music flowed from the metal 'amplifiers' set up to either side. It was rough, loud, and, for some strange reason, appealing to the quiet ninja girl. Hinata bobbed her head to the worlds tune and found herself thinking words of her own, with a few bumps and bad lines, of course. Hinata found she was disappointed when the song ended, only to be overjoyed at the beginning of the next.
After another four songs, Maddie pulled the microphone up from where it was poised at her guitar's level, "Okay, folks, that's it for us tonight, but the party lasts until midnight!" Maddie set her guitar down and pranced to Hinata. "How did you like it, Hina?"
"Amazing! I loved it!" Hinata exclaimed. The band seemed pleased, and began to put away their equipment as the stereo system took over music-making once more.
Mr. Dwight took Hinata's hand and led her out to the designated dancing area and Hinata laughed out loud as he began to swing her around. "You know how to swing dance, Hinata?" He asked over the reverberating music.
Hinata smiled lightly, "Apparently!" she called back.
-Later-
At half-past two in the morning, Hinata sat on Maddie's bed, facing Maddie, who was still dancing around her room watering some scattered flowers, among which the begonias were dying. "So, meet anyone you like, most were friends of mine or people I talk to." Maddie inquired. She set down the small watering can and picked up a spray bottle labeled, strangely, H2O. "Hope you don't mind, at least for sure you'll meet someone at school, you start next week. Well?"
Hinata scooted around a tad on the royal blue bedspread before laying down. " I like that Kevin fellow."
"Guy."
"Guy?"
"Yeah, a fellow is someone old, usually. A guy is someone your age."
"Oh, okay," said Hinata getting used to small language lessons that Maddie enjoyed giving her. "I like that Kevin guy. He's a little…crazy. I think the word is, but he's very funny. I don't even know how to describe Gary, he's…wonderful. So gentlemanly and kind and, what's wrong?"
Hinata had sensed Maddie stiffen and stifle laughter. "Nothing!" she managed to choke out.
"What?" asked Hinata, sitting up.
"It's just, there's no way he'd go out with you!" Maddie said and burst out laughing.
Hinata for a moment looked hurt before masking it and looking down, covering her shamed face.
Maddie looked over and quickly quit her chortling. "Oh no, Hina-honey, it's that he's GAY. He doesn't date GIRLS, period." Hinata's head shot up and she looked directly at Maddie, forgetting for a moment her 'blindness.'
"He's h-homosexual?"
One look at Hinata's shocked features sent Maddie doubling over in fits of giggles and Hinata swallowed loudly.
"Oh. Wow." Blushing, Hinata began to snicker. "That would make him hard to date, wouldn't it?"
Together the two girls laughed.
-End chapter-
Wow…it took hours to write, and hours to type. Fun. Please! Point out fallacies! I need to know where they are! Thanks!
ME