"My Neji?" comes after a long silence, everyone looking at Hinata's aunt in order to see her reaction. Hinata could feel the sadness and hope radiating off of everyone, especially her aunt. Suddenly she felt as though the whole world was pushing on her to answer.

"Y-y-yes…" Hinata's eyes shut quickly, and her stuttering coming to her because of all the pressure on her. From herself, but the pressure there none the less, almost ashamed of what she said.

"No.." eyes widen when they hear that one sorry word come out of their normally bubbly aunt. She looks around the room stopping at Hanabi.

"Way!" The happiness comes in at just the right time from her sister. Hinata started to stifle a giggle, so that only Hiashi heard.

'Must not laugh, must not ruin the moment. Must not laugh out at a hilarious scene, must not…' Hinata was desperate to not laugh, and her desperation would've normally sprouted a conversation from her father about her manners but…

He was in the same exact position as she. Totally incapable of holding it any longer, the two look the other way.

The first to laugh was the aunt, and it all went downhill from there. Suddenly, laughter filled the whole room.

All was happy, and all was well. Because, after all, though they were running out of money they had their family, their quirky, confusing, loving, family. And they wouldn't lose them because, after all, everyone has family.

Whether they like it or not

~On the Other Side of the Spectrum~

They all knew that he wasn't happy. The fact that the car got parked not-completely parallel to both of the walls proved that point. Sasuke Uchiha was by no means happy. And, he wasn't mad either. No, mad could not begin to describe what he was. Livid, angry, resentful, hateful, frustrated, mad, mix them all up and you might begin to know what he was.

He was steaming, and it was all because of the fact that Kakashi chose a girl for their new assistant. What kind of idea is that? Okay, maybe he is being a little sexist… but hey! How many people could say that they weren't after being chased around by the opposite gender everywhere they go? What, oh, yes I would like the list in alphabetical order.

Okay, so maybe it was a little unfair for the new girl, but whoever accused Sasuke Uchiha of being fair.

And that is exactly why all of the band were scared out of their wits, too scared to speak about it until ten minutes after the moody kid left.

And then they started off with shaky voices, not.

"So, why did you just ruin our lives forever?" Shikamaru asked annoyed, for now he would never be able to have a decent sleep ever again.

"Because…" Kakashi began to think of a good excuse because 'I was too tired of looking for someone' would've gotten him killed and into some nearby alley by night fall. Just as he was about to come up with one, he lost it, because a weird blonde Naruto yelled out a little repeat [repeat] at that very moment.

"Yeah! WHY WHY WHY!!!" nearly bursted everyone's eardrums, and all was silent for a few seconds of pure bliss. "Hey, why is everyone quiet?" and of course, the same blonde had a, well, a blonde moment and asked that question in addition to his earlier repetitive sentence.

"Since we have had this… umm… position open for one year and… ummm… a new book came out! Sorry have to…" Hatake didn't even finish his sentence as he bolted straight out of there.

All of them were silent, slowly counting the ways the Uchiha would ruin their lives, ruin it in such a way that death would be a pleasure.

A pleasure out of reach.

~And the torturer~

Growling, Sasuke Uchiha almost felt like… killing someone. A mere picture was all that he punched for the time being, though that had seemed to bring him some type of sick pleasure.

There was only so long that he could go around pacing his room, with the insert of a punch here and there, before destroying all of his belongings. Not like he couldn't buy anymore of the expensive junk and trash. He simply sat down to save him the trouble.

This was all his brother's fault. If he hadn't intervened, if he hadn't convinced his family to disown him, then he wouldn't be in this situation.

It did him well to have someone to blame his suffering on, and he seemed to calm down.

But his brother had ruined his life, he had caused him to move away from a freaking mansion, in the middle of downtown. (Never let it be said that they weren't rich,)

He glared at the wall, wishing he could rip out his brother's throat, and twitched.

Whatever happened, he would not let the new girl get the better of him. She would not get any pleasure out of this. He would make sure of it.

~Middle of Nowhere Konoha~

The sun peaked through the windowsill as Hinata stretched, loving the feeling of the sun on her arms. The air was pure and fresh, enjoy it while it lasts, she grinned to herself.

This was the best restaurant in all of Konoha, well, the only restaurant but still, the best of the best.

The band would come today. She knew it to be true, the band would steal her away from her favorite place in the whole wide world to go there. Where was there? She didn't know, that was it about the whole not-a-city girl thing, she couldn't navigate her way then.

How could you, the fumes in the air so dense it practically blinds you.

Let me tell you now, for those of you who do live in such a place, she meant no ill will by that. In fact, she never truly meant ill will, but this is simply not what she was accustomed to.

Just last night she got a call from(was it Kakati?) saying that she would be stolen from her home at noon that day.

Let me tell you that this was not a happy thing to her, and that she was inwardly dreading their arrival, though you would be lucky if she admitted it to you.

Hinata was busy setting the table and finishing off last night's truck-load of dirty dishes when the first customer came in that day… or more like Hinata's best friend who was grinning like a… grinning like an idiot from ear to ear.

"Hi! Hina-chan!" Ten-Ten's brunette buns flopped against her loose hair as she captured said girl in a large bear hug.

Ten-Ten was grinning at her and started to assist Hinata in anyway possible, but also brought her questions.

"What job do you have? How many people are there? Did you find…" Ten-Ten's eyes became melancholy at the last question. For a while, Ten-Ten was the only contact to Neji that they had had. The two were dating for a while, but for some reason broke up and lost contact.

Even Ten-Ten doesn't know why.

"A-assistant, a-a-about six-ish, a-an-d y-ye-ye…" She two almost finished but was cut off by another person entering the store.

Said person was walking without care into anything and everything in the store, said person was also a run-away.

We found out when she came here and was looking confused some years ago, we let her stay.

"Yo," Temari's blonde hair was in many hair ties as she walked over to her two friends with a smirk. Not a smile, a smirk, like those kind of you-guys-are-acting-like-idiots smirks that we all hate and… hate.

"H-hi, Tem-Temari-chan," She managed to stutter out, who, why the only one who stutters that's who. Hinata's midnight blue hair sways with her steps as she walks purposefully around the restaurant and sets up the tables for the people coming for lunch.

~Middle of Everything Suna~

"Are we there yet?" a blonde asked a blonde question as the group passed by the 'Last Shop for the next twenty miles' Shop sign, and kept going on a road full of lush trees.

Sasuke Uchiha wished that all of it would burn down and fast. The forest was bordering the road, no way out, and burning it down would leave a wonderful short cut, why the road winded he had NO idea.

"No" was his wonderful one word response.

You know, I once thought to set him up for speech classes, sadly that hadn't gone over too well… Oh come on! We all know that you've thought about it before!

"Actually," Their helpful manager added, "we're pretty close. Only 20 miles now," he tried to placate them to no affect. Sadly, he reminded himself, they are used to everything being within five miles of their home.

This was way out of their territory.

"Hn" two of the five members looked out windows since they had said their few words already. Another two were talking of who they might see there, you know, the girls. Though, out of the two, Naruto kept on talking about their accountant, Sakura Haruno.

Some how, whenever it got there, a 'sleeping' drummer snored really loudly, shaking the whole Ferrari.

How many of those do you see on this road? Wait, scratch that, How many cars do you see?

Zip, nada, zulch, zero. Nothing else was there with them on the road, and I take it that that is what annoyed them the most.

What happened to the horns? Gone. Traffic, none, takes you five minutes for what would be an hour trip in Suna here.

It freaked out even the least caring of them.

So when they pulled up to the small town, the ending of which they could see from the front of the town, it freaked them out. There were plentiful trees, if the hadn't known better, then they would've gone right by it.

The houses were all modest, not many windows, and all had a backyard. A backyard! Some of them hadn't seen those in NINETEEN years.

Most of them were nineteen.

That being said, they were all confused, and then even more so when a small girl came running out of a building, though it seemed she didn't notice them there.

"Try catching me now n------" you get it, she ran straight into the band, and looked up, her confident pale blue-white eyes staring mischievously at them, you know, the hottest thing in the world.

"Oi, seems like you are new here, apparently you all can't navigate your way through a paper bag…"