Chapter five

Here it is finally! Chapter five, I've re-read it and unfortunately decided that I didn't like it very much. I think I've lost my writing skills, that is if I ever had any to begin with. Anyway, I apologize that this took so long to get published but I'm having one of those stages in a decent writers life….the writers Block!

Lets just say that my interest has gone down considerably. Very discouraging to those who read this I know….I won't delete it like I did my other 17 stories….Very interesting story but that's for another day kiddos.

Ah, I'm ranting randomly again….

Just please look down and start reading!

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"Nice wedding, nice-looking couple. But I hear that the marriage was arranged."

With all the compliments she got she also received gossip.

"Handsome young man, I'll say. She must be very happy. But I hear that she was forced to marry him."

She ignored it…or at least she tried.

"Hinata, give your new husband a kiss for me, alright?" Ino told her as Hinata stepped into the running car. Neji, looked at his watch impatiently.

"Ino, are you coming or not?"

Ino looked at him as if he were insane. "Of course I'm coming! You honestly think I'd let my best friend leave without me seeing her new house? Which by the way just to let you know, I will be coming over to check on you."

Hinata frowned slightly while Neji shook his head. "Why Ino?"

Ino pursed her lips. "Let's just say I did some digging around found out that a certain woman just so happens to work for Sasuke."

"Sakura Haruno?" Neji asked knowingly.

Ino nodded and said with pure disgust. "We met and you could tell she could get any man with just the flip of her hair and a flirtatious smile."

"I'd like to see her try. Get in the car Ino." Neji ordered.

Ino opened the back door and slid in. Closing the door, Neji rode off.

Hinata, bit her lip at the sudden news of this other woman. If what Ino said was true should she really be concerned if he was having an affair? No…he wouldn't…would he? She didn't know him well so she couldn't just make an inaccurate assumption like that but it still nagged her. The only way to find out was to just wait and see.

"Hinata you know Naruto Uzamaki, the cute guy who doesn't live to far from my apartment?" Ino asked suddenly breaking the silence that had overcome the group for a while.

"Yeah." Hinata answered a smile on her face. She liked Naruto. He had this certain way of making her laugh like she had never before.

"Well he unfortunately fell in to her hands. She tore him apart, Hinata. They went around for a few times then she dumped him, just like that."

Her smile disappeared. "How is he?"

"Oh he's just fine. He got over it but you can tell he still wants her."

"How do you know so much information about her, Yamanaka?" Neji asked curiously. "You haven't been sneaking around in others business have you?"

"I do the same as you Neji, my boy. I spy and wear disguises. You're a real glutton you know that?" Ino smirked.

"It takes one to know one." Neji shot back.

As always Hinata watched the two bicker back and forth. She knew after the drive to her new home, she would rarely see them like this again. It made her think of just how much her life would change. In a way she was sad but sill anxious. She glanced out the car window for a split second and then back at Neji's and Ino's argument. She sighed and couldn't help but wish she hadn't gotten married. It was a petty thing to say but it was how she felt.

There I go only thinking about myself again.

She hadn't taken the time to even think about what he wanted. He didn't seem bad at the wedding but he didn't much to her either. In fact she couldn't only remember him nodding or approving a compliment. If he said anything it wasn't to her or to her family.

She hoped that wasn't a sign of dislike.

"Hinata, Naruto mentioned something to Sasuke at the wedding." She suddenly heard Ino whisper into her ear. She snapped out of her thoughts and asked anxiously.

"He was there? I didn't see him, what did he say?"

Apparently, Ino had won this argument because Neji was hunched over the driving wheel, his steely eyes locked on the road ahead of him and she had a triumphant smile on her face.

"I don't know. I just saw him whisper something and the handsome devil smirked." Ino emphasized and grinned at Hinata's sudden sour look at the mention of her nickname for Sasuke.

"Should I ask him….no it's none of my business." Hinata suggested then took back.

Ino gasped. "None of your business? Hinata Hyuga, this is your husband were talking about. Of course what he does is your business!"

Hinata looked down. "Oh." She said meekly.

Ino sighed. "I knew you weren't ready for this—"

She was suddenly cut off by Neji saying sharply. "She's a Hyuga, she is ready for anything."

Ino looked taken aback. "And we wonder why her self esteem is so low!"

"Her self esteem is low because she has chosen for it to be low."

"That's bull Neji Hyuga!"

Hinata closed her eyes and covered her ears with her slender hands.

Here we go again…

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Sasuke Uchiha looked out his room window as he observed his new wife. He watched as she stepped out of the passengers' seat and straighten her clothes and hair out. Much to his surprise two others stepped out of the car as well. One seemed to be stiff, her cousin. He remembered him, the one who kept giving him warning looks at the wedding. Then there was a spunky looking blonde. He remembered her as well. She was the one who constantly kept looking at him from head to toe, as if she would sense something abnormal about him.

He would have preferred if it had just been her but he didn't mind company, Sakura could handle them long enough until she would have them leave. In fact, if necessary he would have Sakura kick them out. She was very capable of it and he would think of it as very amusing for himself. He was pretty sure her stiff cousin would put up a fuss while blondie would try to take charge of the situation.

He smirked.

"Sakura, I need you to go greet our guests, Show them how we work."

Sakura, who had taken a seat across from him, nodded with her own signature smirk. "May I as why?"

"After you have them leave."

"Do you care how I get them to leave?"

"No, be it you speak with them for only thirty seconds, just have them leave."

Sakura nodded. It was little jobs, if you must, like this that really made her wonder why she stuck around the interesting specimen she liked to call Sasuke. Perhaps it was his striking features, or maybe it was just her attraction to him that never went away. Whatever the reason she undoubtedly liked doing pleasurable things for him. If you called this little duel between the two families pleasurable. From the amused look on his face perhaps that was the reason. It was about him. What he wanted and Sakura would have it no other way.

Of course she knew that he wanted to show his petite wife how things worked. Sakura understood that quite well. It hadn't surprised her very much when she had heard about the marriage. It actually made her grin secretly to herself. This interesting specimen was in fact getting married to a Hyuga who didn't look like she could take on the roll of being Mrs. Uchiha. One look of her and you knew she wasn't cut out for the job. It was very obvious that the marriage had been arranged. To obvious to lie about.

But Sakura had taken on the job of keeper of the Uchiha and had went along with it. Just like everybody else who was surprised and envious at the same time. She had heard many times women gossiping about the Uchiha marriage, about how they looked so right for each other. She had scoffed. If only they knew that the rumors were true.

It was true though that Hinata Hyuga was attractive, she was very attractive indeed but naïve as well. But Sakura knew the real reason as to why he married her. He wanted to make sure that he had insurance. He wanted to continue the generation of Uchiha's before they were completely wiped off the face of the earth, become extinct if you will. To put things in simpler and harsher terms Hinata Hyuga was just a vessel. A hollow being who could be used once, when finished with it was thrown to the side or possibly away.

He isn't capable of loving; he has lost the emotion, it's only a vague memory he only wishes to forget. Believe me he can't love. I've tried to bring back the vague memory but it only kills him more.

Is this marriage really good for you?

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Hinata watched as a pretty, young women opened the doors of the large manor with a side-grin on her face. She was dressed nicely in a dark blue business suit.

The first words that popped out of her glossy lips were. "Hello, Ms. Uchiha." She turned to acknowledge Neji and Ino.

"Thank you for dropping her off."

Sakura then proceded to lightly grab Hinata's wrist and pull her inside. She then nodded to Ino and Neji and closed he door with a resounding clang. Hinata frowned slightly but smiled at Sakura nonetheless.

"Hello…" Hinata trailed off and then looked at Sakura apologetically.

"Sakura Haruno." Sakura told her.

Hinata nodded and then tried it again. "Hello, Sakura. It's nice meeting you."

"You didn't see me at the wedding?"

Hinata shook her head. "I apologize, I guess I was a little too anxious to remember faces."

Meanwhile, Sasuke watched from his window at the flabbergasted cousin and annoyed blondie. Once Sakura had closed the door he knew right at that moment it had hit a soft spot. Cousin had probably never been disrespected in such an absurd way and blondie probably took the closing of the door in her face a rule broken in the "I don't like you" series written by anonymous women.

What would happen next though would take him by surprise completely.

Blondie, who had been so offended felt the need to climb up the vines up to his second floor window, while cousin just looked up at her but made no comment. She had rapped on his window, mouthing things that he was sure he didn't want to hear.

He had no choice but to open the window.

Ino stuck one slender leg in after the other. Her face was scrunched up and a frown graced her mouth.

"You, my friend, had better go downstairs and tell your that little….Sakura whats what!"

She had just given him an order?

"I will do no such thing."

Ino's frowned deepened and she walked up to him. "Listen, I don't know what you do around here with guest but that unacceptable! I don't care who you are, but you have no right to slam your door in my face!"

"I believe I wasn't the one who slammed the door in your face. In fact the door wasn't slammed, it was closed. This is my property and I believe that I have the rightful authority to do whatever I please with it."

It was right at that moment that Sakura and Hinata entered the room. Sakura raised an eyebrow once she saw Ino while Hinata mouth gaped open slightly.

"Hinata, were leaving." Ino said sternly and straight-forward.

She walked towards Hinata and grabbed her hand. Hinata who was disorientated, had no choice but to follow. That is until, she felt another warm hand grab her wrist. She could tell instantly that it was his hand and she stopped walking behind Ino.

"You now live here, do you not think it would be foolish if you left your own home?" He had said those words in such a way that she did feel foolish.

"Hinata, I'm sure that Neji is waiting, lets go!" Ino urged as she pulled Hinata closer to her.

"Actually I'm right here." Neji's voice rang out from the entrance of the room. He stood there observing the situation while all eyes turned to him and then back in their own positions.

"The choice is Hinata's." Was all he said.

The choice is mine? Hinata thought stressfully. She wasn't good at making choices! That was why she'd rather Neji or Hanabi take on the manor! She just wasn't put up for it…

Perhaps I'm not put up for this either.

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I've finished finally! I'm so sorry it took me a month to get up just one measly chapter, I have no excuses! I'm a lazy person at times and though it's not one of my favorable qualities it's part of my personality.