Ino sang quietly under her breath as she pushed open the multi-colored door that was Hinata's room. Her bare feet padding silently on the honey colored wooden floor as she headed towards the bed at the far right corner of the room, her blond hair, disheveled, swayed at every step she took. In her small, well-manicured hands she held a grey plaid mini skirt along with a yellow blouse in white hangers.

An excited smile stretched onto her pale pink lips; her wide blue mischievous eyes shone as they landed upon the still figure in the bed.

Blue hair peeked out of the top of the covers, along with a pale arm swung over at the edge, fingers brushing the floor; Ino strode forward towards the queen sized bed and began nudging the figure that was basically mummified by the thick covers.

"Hinataaa…Wake up." She said in a sing-song voice.

The bulge shifted, and the hanging arm retracted back inside the covers, which were pulled down to reveal half hooded eyes filled with questioning. They shifted at the objects in Ino's hand, flickered towards her face, back to the clothes, then back to her face. "That yellow makes you look sallow." The normally smooth voice was raspy with sleep. "Wear a softer –" She was cut off by a wide yawn which caused her eyes to water, she smacked her lips together before she continued.

"Wear a soft blue and white, blue patterned skirt and white sandals."

Ino interrupted her. "No heels?"

"No, you tall enough as it is." As an after thought, the pale eyed girl added, "Wear your hair in a half pony tail. I don't have to tell you –yawn – the details."

Ino grinned. "I'm so excited!" She squealed, causing her blue haired friend to flinch. "I know, now go –yawn –." Humming happily, Ino nearly skipped out of the room, also nearly forgetting to close the door with a sheepish, yet bright grin. Hinata couldn't help but smile back.

A few moments later showed Hinata staring blearily at the door for a few moments before she sat up, and raked her hand through her unnatural blue hair. She raised her arms above her head, stretching and arching slowly in a cat-like manner, yawning loudly. She remained stiff for a few moments before falling back limp against the bed.

A smile made its way onto her lips as her gaze shifted towards the window next to her bed, the white curtains fluttering gently as the wind blew above her. She reached under her pillow and felt around before her hand clumsily grasped her cellphone and flipped it. 6:58am it read. "You certainly woke up early…" She murmured about Ino, knowing that the tall blonde would usually sleep till the afternoon.

She ripped the covers off and swung her long pale legs over the edge, scratching her head, making it even messier than it was and padded off to the bathroom.

When she came back out her long blue hair was damp and her body wrapped in a white robe. She walked towards the dresser, pulled it open and rummaging through, before pulling out a simple shirt and shorts, along with an underwear and bra.

After dressing she combed her hair in quick strokes before she headed to the kitchen, where she found Temari, leaning casually against the counter, flipping the through the newspaper for the cartoons and games. "Morning." Hinata flashed Temari a cheerful smile, her response was a grunt. Temari wasn't a morning person.

"So, Hinata." Temari said as she doodled mustaches and whatnot over the little drawings, her short sandy blond hair tied in a messy bun at the back of her head, with strands falling messily across her face. She automatically brushed them away and tucked them behind her pierced ears. "What are gonna do today?"

Hinata, who had been contemplating what to make for breakfast, and was now pulling ingredients from the refrigerator, hummed in question, "I honestly have no clue, Neji isn't here so I can't braid his hair –"

"You gotta admit, for a guy he has great hair."

"–Yeah I know, right? Anyway, Gaara isn't here either, so it'd be pretty boring if we went to the track to race."

Temari's eyebrows rose. "There are four of us, how can that be boring?"

"Well, not boring, but I mean like, he brings this certain sarcasm to things, oh wait, that's Neji, and he's good competition –"

"Gaara or Neji?"

"Gaara, Temari can you help me find the oil? I can't find it…"

Temari's eyebrows furrowed as she flipped a page in the paper to an article, now drawing over a picture of Aerosmith. "Olive or Canola?"

"Canola, I'm making waffles."

Temari hesitated. "Try the fridge." She said slowly.

Hinata walked over to the fridge, laughing when she found the bottle of Vegetable Oil. "Why the hell is this in the fridge, Temari?" She snorted with a smile. "What the hell? Really?"

Temari broke into an amused smile. "I think Tenten put it there, you know the poor girl can't cook, one would think by the dumplings on her head she'd know to at least fry it, but no, she has to go and burn it, wasting perfectly good food."

Hinata smile as she mixed the batter. "She can't even boil water, I pity the girl. Is it even possible to burn water?"

"Apparently it is." Came the dry response.

"IINOOOO!" Hinata and Temari poked their heads out of the archway door curiously, their conversation interrupted by the shriek from upstairs. "Speak of the devil and he shall appear." Hinata murmured, paying exclusive attention to the clattering and apparent battle upstairs. "I bet you five dollars Ino did something to her weapons." Temari whispered, her green eyes (1) wide as she stared at the stairs were books, knives, and other rather harmful objects found home in. "I bet you twenty she cut off her buns." "Ooh, I should have said that. Deal."

Mere moments later, a whirlwind of blond, glinting gray and brown came clashing down the stairs with threats of promising pain.

Minutes later Temari was clucking over the injuries Ino and Tenten had, tending to them, the former and latter glaring at each other, while Hinata leaned against the sink, her arms crossed over her chest, a disapproving frown on her face. Ino and Tenten squirmed guiltily, both of them sporting scratches and bruises with a few well-placed sharp objects which were non-too gently removed.

It was no secret in the household that Hinata was the only person who could just stare and make you break down in five seconds flat if you didn't get the looks in a regular basis. Right now Ino was guiltily tugging her long blond hair, her blue eyes darting everywhere around the kitchen but Hinata, while Tenten was scratching and rubbing her shoulder, a habit she had whenever she felt bad or nervous, but that didn't stop her chocolate brown eyes from glaring steels at Ino, who had indeed cut off the hair on one side of her head. Now Tenten had mid length hair on one side, and un-even chin length hair on the other. Temari was throwing curious looks at Tenten's dark brown hair, wondering that could be done to save it.

"Just what were you two thinking?"

The two girls sitting on the stools by the wooden counter hesitated, but as if an ON button had been pressed, they both started shouting simultaneously along with hand movements to support their claims. After a few seconds, to which neither noticed the pulsing vein appearing in Hinata's forehead, Hinata stepped forward and slammed her hand upon the counter. The marble under her hand cracked. "Enough!" She snapped her unnatural white eyes ablaze with anger and disappointment. "I don't even need to ask just what the fuck happened up there! You just can't go cutting people's hair when you feel like it Ino. Temari." Hinata's eyes shifted toward Temari who nodden and with a flick of her wrist, a seemingly invisible wind blew, the result was Ino's beautiful silky hair was suddenly on the floor, causing the owner of the hair to screech in horror. "Zip it, Ino! You brought this on yourself. How do you feel that Temari cut your hair?" Hinata questioned sternly.

Ino looked at Hinata through enraged blue orbs. "WHAT THE HELL!"

Temari took charge. "Then how do you think Tenten feels, you cut her hair for no reason."

"She wouldn't wake up! She told me to wake her up, and if she didn't to do something!"

"I didn't mean cutting my hair you psychotic bitc–"

"That's no excuse, Yamanaka!" Ino winced at the use of her surname. "You know better! That was stupid and childish! If she didn't wake up, get me or Hinata!"

Tenten threw Ino a smug look, which did not go unnoticed by Hinata's or Temari's, sharp eye. "And you! You know better than to throw kunai's and senbon's, among others! To each other! No matter how angered off you are Tenten you can't do that. You could have killed Ino." Temari stated, punctuating her words with a rather harsh poke on a bruise on Tenten's arm, which caused her to yelp.

Hinata sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Tenten, go the living room, Ino, dining room. Stay until I call you back."

Hinata's order was countered with protests, which were soundly shut at Temari's bark to be quiet and do as their told, and grudgingly the two girls stood up, muttering about the unfairness of the situation and sulked to their destinations.

Hinata leaned back against the counter, crossing her arms over her chest watching Temari expectantly, and with a huff, Temari grudgingly herself, handed Hinata the owned money, which the latter tucked away in her pocket with a grin. "Nice doing business with you." Hinata said smugly as she poured batter into the waffle maker.

"Yeah, I bet it is." The sandy blond haired girl murmured, walking out of the kitchen towards her own room side stepping the glinting objects on the stairs to get ready for the day.

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Finally, the first re-written chapter of The Orphan.

One of the reasons I took some time off was because I wanted to improve my writing, so I've spent the last couple of years reading different writing styles and such, I hope you guys leave a review on your opinion of my writing now.

I really want to thank "Her Highness Gaki-chan" She said something to me that really helped and lifted a great weight off my shoulders. She is the first person to tell me that, so it defiantly helped the pressure, of writing and posting on time, dissolve. So a huge shout out to her, and another thank you.

I apologize to my old readers for taking such a long time, and thanks guys for waiting.

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I'm currently editing the second chapter of TOA.

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