AN: Hey guys! I felt like updating soon this time. Well, I didn't really update for the past… two weeks, I think? That's really because it was my Spring break and I was just sitting around doing nothing and being lazy. I was procrastinating. The day school started again, I was working my ass off to finish a paper. But I've handed it in already so everything is goooooood.

Thank you for all your reviews and favorites! I honestly didn't think I was going to get this many. I don't update very often so I feel really bad for my readers. I'm sorry! I've just been swamped with work this year. :/ I'm sure I'll be writing more often once summer comes around. Don't fret! It's not that far away! I feel like I need a creative outlet for when I'm not going to school.

Disclaimer: Well, I don't own Naruto…

The sound of rustling keys was heard on the other side of Hinata's apartment door. When she finally got her front door open, Hinata walked over to her couch, dumped her bag onto the couch, and left her jacket on top of her loveseat. She dragged her tired feet into her kitchen to find something to eat. She hadn't been eating much these past few days. She had to meet Ms. Haruno and her artist friend so that they can work together on the dessert menu and the wedding cake.

Ms. Haruno was really picky. My god, she was so picky! She always had something to say about Hinata's ideas, none of which were really encouraging or nice. There was always something wrong with her wedding cake blueprints. It wasn't tall enough. It wasn't short enough. It was too white. It had too many flowers. The bride figurine that was supposed to sit on the top of the cake didn't have pink hair. The figurine made her look fat. The cake was too sweet. The cake didn't have enough pink on it.

All of her complaints were taken into consideration, of course. Hinata has never had such a big project to work on. It was really important and could possibly help her image. With the famous Uchihas asking her to bake their cake, Hinata couldn't help but think that her bakery business would only grow. She didn't want to mess up or get a bad review. She'd had to get blacklisted in the field that she had spent so much time arguing over with her father. Her father… She also wanted to prove to her father that she had what it takes to run the bakery on her own. Yes, the project must go perfectly.

Sighing, Hinata pulled out a packet of instant noodles from her cupboard and got out a small bowl. She opened up the package and poured its contents into the bowl before filling it up with hot water. She placed a little plate over the top and began to wait. As she was doing just that, her mind began to linger.

'So Ms. Haruno is marrying Uchiha Sasuke? Why do I feel sad when I think about all of this? Do I have the right to feel sad? I'm sure they're madly in love. They probably just didn't want anyone making nasty rumors about them on gossip magazines. Ms. Haruno seems to like Sasuke a lot. She talks about him constantly and knows just about everything about him. But why didn't he show up to help her out with the preparations for the wedding?'

When she snapped out of her thoughts, she removed the plate from the bowl and placed it onto the table. She grabbed a pair of chopsticks and began eating away at the noodles. Then, her mind began to wander back into her previous thoughts…

'Ms. Haruno is so pretty too. I mean, she doesn't have the most tolerable personality but she is beautiful, rich, powerful, and smart. She was really everything I'm not. I'm average. I have family problems and I'm really average when it comes to being educated. When I was at school, I was never really high up there. I was always average. I never really felt insecure about my education though. I always figured that being average was better than being below average. I tried pretty hard in school but I guess I was never able to make my way up to the honor roll… But Ms. Haruno… She's so smart. She went to all these famous universities and has all these degrees… She was always top of her class and so many men desired her.'

She sighed again. 'What does any of this matter to you? You're not marrying Uchiha Sasuke. He's not choosing between you two. Snap out of it!'

She finished up her noodles and placed the bowl into the sink before she began scrubbing away at it. She decided that she should really be focusing on herself right now. She had her career and her job. This project was imperative to raising her status in her career. If she wanted people to take her seriously, she had to complete this project without any mistakes. She had to make everyone happy even if it meant that she wouldn't be.

TIMESKIP!

It was pretty boring day. Business was particularly slow and Elliot wanted to visit his mother today with some treats he had learned to make with Hinata. Hinata sat at one of the tables, working on her design for the wedding cake. How many tiers should it be? How much fondant should she use? Should she make the cake pink for Ms. Haruno or blue for Mr. Uchiha? In the end, she decided to just use pink since Ms. Haruno seemed to be making all the calls for the wedding.

The order was huge. How was she supposed to make designs for the wedding cake and all of the other special desserts and treats? There should be around a thousand guests coming to the wedding dinner. That's insane. Luckily, she did have over a month to prepare the order. However, she'd have to work for hours on end! On top of that, she had her bakery to run. She'd have to prepare the treats she was going to sell in her store as well. It was going to be one hell of a month.

Ding! Hinata scrambled to her feet when she heard the bell chime. She turned around to greet her customer but it was just Sai, Sakura and Sasuke's artist friend. He was holding one of those manila envelopes. Hinata quickly picked up her designs and organized them while he was walking over to her. When he was finally in front of her, he held out the envelope, expecting her to take it.

"What's this?" Hinata asked curiously. She felt stupid asking the question but she honestly didn't know what could possibly be in while Sai made it seem like it was the most obvious thing in the world. He was looking at her with a confused expression on his face.

"What do you mean? You asked me to give the emblem design to you today, remember? " Oh right! She had totally forgotten about that. How silly of her! How could she forget? She was having such a hard time working on it herself a few days ago. Luckily, Ms. Haruno had Sai do the emblem for her. She honestly had no idea where to begin. Sai was supposed to be a very famous artist. She had occasionally heard about him on the paper and she didn't even read about art. He did seem like the type to be an artist. He wore very strange outfits. Artists are strange people.

Sai was very friendly when Hinata first met him. He was polite even though his smiles did seem a little fake. At first, Hinata thought he was just being a jerk but when they got down to business, he was very thorough and very concise. He didn't like to beat around the bush. He had his own ideas of how some of the cakes should look like and he didn't hesitate to let the others know about them. His ideas were amazing. Such was expected from such a popular artist, right? He didn't seem to like Ms. Haruno very much though. Throughout the whole meeting, he kept rolling his eyes whenever she cut in to give her input. Well, it wasn't really her input. It was more like her demands. She was very picky about everything and Hinata could tell that he was pissed.

"So the emblem is supposed to go on the wedding cake and the cookies, right?" She was going to have to make a million of these emblems with fondant! She better get working really quickly!

"Yeah. That's what Sakura wants. I emailed her the emblem last night after I was finished. She made me change it a million times but finally, I got it right. She told me that you'll need around 5,000 emblems but you should probably make a few more," he said. He had an annoyed expression on his face whenever he was talking about Ms. Haruno. However, it seems that he should be quite close to her, considering the fact that he used her first name.

"Oh, alright. I'm going to have to get started right away," Hinata sighed. She hoped Sai didn't hear her. He didn't want her to think she hated the assignment. She honestly didn't. She just hated the amount of work that came with it. But she had to prove herself to her father. She wanted to prove that she has grown up and she can take care of herself well.

"I was wondering if you could make one for me right now. Sakura wanted me to see it and review it with you so we can make 'necessary changes'," he said in a girly voice, trying to imitate MS. Haruno. It was pretty good, actually.

"Right now?" She looked around her bakery. There wasn't a soul in sight and she didn't have much to do. Elliot wasn't around so she didn't have to watch him. "Yeah, sure. I have time for that right now," she said with an enthusiastic smile.

In return, Sai gave her one of his fake smiles. "Great," he replied, taking a seat at one of the customer tables. He took out a notebook and his laptop and began to work on whatever it was that he was working on as Hinata walked into the kitchen to get started on the emblem. She grabbed all the things she needed from the various shelves in the kitchen and placed them neatly on the table that she always worked at. The emblem had quite a number of colors so it was going to take some time to get all the colors right.

Hinata heard the phone go off. She put down her fondant and walked out into the seating area of her bakery to pick up the phone. When she was walking there, she saw that Sai was typing away furiously. What he was doing probably wasn't for the wedding. He was probably working on a review for an art piece or something.

She walked a little faster towards the phone because it was already ringing for some time. "Hello?" She asked in her usual sweet tone. Usually, only customers called the bakery phone. Her friends and relatives called her cellphone to reach her since she was almost always in the kitchen making her treats. She always missed her calls since the phone was so far away. It wasn't very smart putting the phone there but she was already too used to going out of the kitchen to pick up the phone and take orders, she didn't want to get another phone and put it in the kitchen.

"Hey. Hinata-san? This is Sasuke," That's strange. Why's Sasuke calling her? She was kind of nervous. Suddenly, she felt as though there was a lump in her throat and she hated herself for it. She had met Sasuke only a handful of times. She didn't know much about him. In fact, she saw his fiancé more than him. It was so strange. The way she felt for him was really annoying her as she never experienced anything like it. Sasuke was just a man she met a few days ago. He's just a man who is engaged.

"Hello Mr. Uchiha. Is something the matter?" she asked, hoping that he'll say no but hoping that he'll say yes just so they could spend more time talking together. Yes, she was a very strange woman. But hey, Uchiha Sasuke was gorgeous and his voice was so husky and perfect. She couldn't stop listening to it.

"Well Sakura called me to check on Sai. Has he come to you yet? He was supposed to bring the emblem over so you can get a look at it…" What did he say after that? Hinata didn't even know. She spaced out. His voice was so entrancing and all she could do was listen to the melody in her ears. She wasn't listening to the words, only the voice. Snap out of it, you lovesick puppy!

"Sai? Oh right. He's here right now. He brought over the emblem and asked me to make one so that we can make the proper adjustments to meet Ms. Haruno's requests," Hinata said politely. She hoped she didn't make Ms. Haruno sound mean and annoying. She didn't want Mr. Uchiha to think that she hated his future fiancé even if somewhere deep inside, she's telling herself that she does in fact hate her.

"Great. I hope my fiancé isn't being too picky. She can be like that sometimes, especially for big events. I can only imagine how it's like with her planning our wedding." When he had said that, Hinata imagined him to be grimacing or something. He sounded like he really liked Sakura. He seemed to know her very well too and accepted all her bad qualities. Ms. Haruno was probably a really sweet person. The wedding was probably the only reason why she's being so annoying…

"No, no. It's fine. Everything is fine over here. I'm making great progress!" Hinata replied, so that Mr. Uchiha wouldn't think she was unhappy with her job or his fiancé.

"OK, that's perfect. I guess I'll talk to you later then," and with that, he hung up. Hinata didn't even get another chance to talk or say goodbye. Well, he's probably just really busy… He does have a very important job. It's quite obvious that he has a lot of work to do with a job that important. It probably took him a lot of time adjusting just so he could make a phone call to her. He must really love his fiancé a lot if he was taking time out of his tight schedule to help her out with planning their wedding.

Hinata sighed. She wished that someone like Mr. Uchiha would walk into her life and sweep her off her feet. He would be just as caring and loving as Mr. Uchiha to Ms. Haruno. Saddened by her thoughts of a lonely future, Hinata trudged her way to the kitchen to finish the emblem while Sai began to draw some sketches for a comic book strip he told her he had been working on.

TIME SKIP!

"The emblem came out nicely. We didn't even need to make that many adjustments," Hinata spoke happily to Ms. Haruno on the phone. She had to remake the emblem only a few times. She was happy. She was doing a great job and making great progress. Sai had helped her fix the coloring a bit and the sizing while muttering mean things about Ms. Haruno. After they had finished the emblem, they had some cupcakes and coffee, all of which Sai enjoyed very much. He thanked her for letting him stay and work with her and then left.

"Oh that's great! I'm so excited! Thank you so much for all your help!" Ms. Haruno chirped loudly into the phone with happiness. Of course she'd be happy. She was marrying the most handsome and most successful man she has ever known. What she wouldn't do to be in her place…

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AN: Well, that's it! I wish I updated sooner. I took my SAT IIs today and it was horribly tiring. But when I got home, I took a nice long nap and since I was so awake and had nothing to do, I decided to write up this chapter! I hope you guys like it. There might be a few mistakes in it though. I didn't feel like editing and rereading. I know, I'm horrible.

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