A/N: This story is mainly NaruHina and NejiTen, but mostly NaruHina. This is my first time to try writing different stories that are in the same universe. Some characters are OC and not all details in the manga/anime are the same in this story (e.g. age, family members).
Summary: Naruto lived as an orphan for as long as he can remember, while Hinata was born into a wealthy, noble, and seemingly "happy" family just as how they portrayed themselves to be in public. His attempt to get a scholarship sponsor in law school led him to the woman who'll soon turn his life upside down. Neji strives hard to maintain a perfect image while he struggles to be branded as an illegitimate child at the same time. But one night with a call girl led him to a different path in life. Both encounters began to unfold lies and secrets untold in their lives, families, and the world they live in.
Genre: Romance, Drama, Angst
Warning: Contains lemon and OC.
Prologue
I never go back on my word.
At least that's what I say all the time - to keep going on. To keep fighting, chasing what I want, my dreams. Her.
Words that were so easy to say when you are in the moment of perceiving what your tomorrow will be. Just when you thought you are about to reach the top of the mountain, everything you worked hard for along the way suddenly crumbles. That feeling when you do ot want to give up but you are lost somewhere in the middle, clueluess on where to begin again. How can you tell until when is it worth clinging onto words you vowed to fulfill? And until when you should decide to let go of it?
As my body slowly gets sucked underneath the murky waters of the freezing lake, my life flashes before my eyes. From my childhood at the orphanage, my pre-teen to teenage days at the Sarutobi mansion, my independency as an adult in my messy apartment, and…the life I pictured to be with her in my dreams. All that came to nothing as I found myself struggling to gasp for air underneath the water. I have every chance to kick the water to swim up to the surface but there's this unseen force that seemingly keeps dragging me down to the bottom. I could only see the distorted light of the moonlight from the surface and it gradually shrinks as I continue to sink at the bottom of the lake.
Maybe that is all there is to my existence. What difference does it make? I've been alone all my life - no parents, siblings, relatives, not a single blood family. Although I do have friends and some people who are dear to me. But are they enough reason? Is my existence still worth fighting for? If I make it up the surface, what place and future does the world still have for me? Is this all there is to life? After all I've been through, this is it?
"Where is he?"
"We lost him."
"Then, go find him, you imbeciles!"
He heard several distorted voices of men above the surface.
How did I get in here in the first place? Do I deserve this? The world and the society was indeed unfair. I survived the harsh reality and world for an orphan only to find out that half of my existence were partly a lie. The only thing I ever did was I fell in love with the Heiress who loved me…
…Hinata
And until then it was her who took over my mind for one last time before everything went black and I stopped gasping for air.
