The longer I stay away, the more guilty I feel and I feel too scared to come back lol. But I've decided writing fanfiction is something I enjoy, and if you really do enjoy reading my work (personally I don't think its that good), I would like to share it with you.
Enjoy!
Disclaimer: As usual, none of the characters mentioned in this fanfiction so far is my intellectual property with the exception of Monique, the random blue-haired girl to be mentioned later in this chapter and her friend Umiko, also to be mentioned later in this chapter.
-- Chapter 5Tenten collapsed onto her bed. "We made it back in time…" she breathed.
"Promise me," Hinata said fearfully. "We are never doing anything like that again. We almost got locked out our dorms for the night! And if we got discovered, imagine the trouble we'd be in!"
"I don't know Hina-chan," Ino giggled. "Our little Sakura might want to go back to the club to find her new lover boy!"
The three girls looked towards Sakura's bed to see her only reaction. All they saw was a small lump covered in a layer of pink hair underneath a thick quilt. The lump grunted an annoyed 'good night'.
Tenten yawned. "Night."
Ino nodded. "It's late. Better start catching up on my beauty sleep!"
"Totally. You need all the beauty sleep you can get," Tenten agreed.
Ino only rolled her eyes and tucked herself into her thick quilt. Soon the only person awake was Hinata. She was a still wide awake from the adrenaline pumping through her veins. If they'd gotten caught she would have been in the most trouble of all probably. But I'll tell you more about that in Chapter 7 -smiles-
Hinata sighed. "Night." She rolled over and found that sleep soon overtook her.
"Mhmm," a random blue haired girl spoke from around a mouthful of scrambled eggs. "It's a new month so I went to the dorm's post office and picked up this month's subscription to Teen Scream Magazine!"
"So?" her friend, a flaming redhead was indifferent. "You do that every month. No need to announce it."
"That's not the point! Look at this," the blue haired girl flipped her magazine onto the table, pointing at the key page with a manicured finger.
Everyone at her table gasped. Soon everyone was poring over that page, absorbing every detail.
The girls soon entered the cafeteria. They were all yawning, hair messily tied into ponytails or lazily brushed, clothing crumpled and wrinkled. It would be obvious to anyone that they had not gotten much sleep. They immediately caught the attention of the blue haired girl who owned the magazine.
"She's here!" she shrieked, pointing at Sakura.
Sakura was caught frozen in mid-yawn at the girl's accusing finger that was several inches from colliding with her nose.
"Huh?" was Sakura's confused reply.
Blue Hair's red haired friend stood up and smirked at her. "So you and your girlfriends decided to have a late night out huh?"
"How did she know?" Hinata thought to herself quietly. "Oh crap… if word of this gets to the principal or my parents… I am so busted."
"What do you want, Umiko?" Ino glared daggers at the red haired girl.
"Look," Umiko smirked, thrusting her friend's magazine towards Ino.
Ino's eyes flicked downwards to glance over the glossy page. Her only reply to Umiko was "AIEEEEEEEEEE!" – a horrible ear-piercing scream.
Hinata took the magazine as Tenten caught Ino as she fainted into her arms. She looked down onto the page, not surprised that it was a review of the hip new club Kakashi had opened last night. Then she realised that the entire page was dedicated to Sakura's winning dance in the couples competition. There were a few snapshots of Monique and Sasuke as well.
Hinata shoved the magazine back at Umiko. "We know you're only jealous that you didn't make it to the opening of the newest hip underground club," she said with a smirk, trying to recover from the shock.
"Totally," Ino had regained conciousness. "It's so obvio—"
Ino was cut off as an angry voice called from the cafeteria's swinging double doors.
"Haruno Sakura. Yamanaka Ino. Hyuuga Hinata. Uhh… Tenten. Come with me now."
The four friends looked at each other and gulped. They turned away dismally to follow their headmistress to her office. The girls in the cafeteria called out "Busted!" in perfect unrehearsed unison as they left, making them feel even worse, something only girls can do.
Inside the office, their headmistress, Tsunade sat down on her swivel leather office chair. The group of dismal children and angry principal sat together in silence for what seemed to be several hours but only lasted for a few minutes. At last Tsunade broke the silence with a heavy sigh. She tossed a copy of Teen Scream Magazine on her polished hardwood desk. It fell on the page showing a glamorous photo of Sakura dancing with a dark-haired hottie.
"Couples competition champion, Haruno Sakura, left the new underground club before she could be congratulated. She was seen with three friends, described by several clubbers as 'totally lickable'. If she is reading this article right now, us at Teen Scream Magazine would just like to say, 'You go girl!'" Tsunade quoted the article in a fake cheerful voice, her face glowing with sarcastic joy like she had overdosed on Botox while smiling.
"Girls, girls girls," she said, shaking her head. "What were you thinking? Sneaking out of dorm and getting yourselves spotted by the media?"
Ino and Tenten exchanged looks, surprised that they were not currently being screamed at. Sakura braced herself for when the real screaming lecture would begin while Hinata merely stared dejectedly at the buffed floorboards.
"In my day," Tsunade began. "I was a dancer too. Oh boys from all over the world came to dance with me!"
Tsunade's eyes were shining with pride as she remembered 'the good old days'. Ino tried to repress herself but she could not help but let out a snort of laughter.
"What? Don't you believe me?" Tsunade's eyes flamed. "I should challenge you to a dance-off! But now I am no longer a dancer, I am the headmistress of this academy and as headmistress I must say by sneaking out in the middle of the night, going downtown and into a nightclub! This will reflect very poorly on the school's security and overall reputation. I'm afraid I will have to call your parents and let them know."
"Oh no…" Hinata dismally cradled her head in her hands, afraid of what her parents would say.
"Furthermore," Tsunade continued. "You are all suspended for two weeks. During that time you will return to stay with your parents. You are to leave tomorrow morning. You may leave now."
The girls numbly left Tsunade's office.
"My mum is going to slaughter me and turn me into a bouquet," Ino said bleakly.
Hinata stood before her red-faced father and her contrastingly pale mother.
"How DARE you sneak out in the middle of the night!" her father raged. "What you have done is terrible! Your antics may destroy the future your mother and I have planned for you!
"ARE YOU LISTENING?" Her father, leaned in towards her. "You'll be lucky if we can still find a decent marriage for you now!" His spittle rained over her as he screamed.
Hinata's slender hands curled into fists, her nails digging painfully into her palms. Her silvery white eyes closed, tears seeping from beneath her eyelids.
All her father cared about was his own ambition. To him Hinata was nothing but an asset, like a cow to be sold in a market. He overreacted about every small thing, determined to keep Hinata's bride price up.
She felt large strong hands grab her by the hair violently. They pulled her roughly. Seering pain shot through her scalp and into her body. She opened her eyes and looked through bleary tear-clouded vision as she tried to see where she was going while her still raging father dragged her up the grand staircase.
He threw her bodily onto her suite's living room couch. "Stay in here and try to see the errors in your ways you disgusting piece of shit. I swear you're just like your mother, always causing trouble for me."
As her father made his way to her door, he muttered commands to his butler. "Make sure she doesn't leave her suite. Let her make her own meals, she has a kitchen in this suite after all. Let her survive on her own and see how life is without my protection."
His butler nodded mutely, and shut the door quietly when Hinata's father had left. He turned the key and stationed two guards outside her door.
Poor Hinata-sama… she's the daughter of a prestigious house. Pretty, intelligent and loving… no-one sees behind her mask of the 'gentle lady' to the frightened young girl that must be hiding within.
Inside the room, Hinata lay shivering on the couch. Hot tears filled her eyes again. But they were from rage this time, not fear and sorrow. The sun has long set, the sky was dark and clouded now.
"I'm not going to stand this any longer!" she muttered into a sofa cushion. She quickly showered and brushed her hair. She took out a suitcase from beneath her bed and packed some personal belongings and other usual-suitcase thingies (A/N: You don't really want me to list all the stuff right? XD). She filled her pockets with ample amounts of cash.
When she was done with that, she pulled all the sheets from her bed. She ripped them into shreds then tied them together, end to end, forming a long makeshift rope. Using this, she carefully and discretely lowered her suitcase onto the lawn. Then she tied the rope to her bed and climbed down herself, landing on the lawn with a soft crunching sound.
Somewhere in the distance, a guard on patrol and his dog were walking. His dog immediately heard the crunch. It bared its teeth and began to snarl, pulling the guard in Hinata's direction. Hinata could do nothing but stand frozen with fear as the fierce animal made its way towards her.