The Price of Honor
A/N: Hello everyone. I don't really have any special notes but i really want to thank GothicLoveSpell3, Random Kidd, and Eirdaru for being my first reveiwers. I also appreciate the people who have fav. and alert my story. I got nothing but love for y'all.
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Chap. 2: The trials of today
After the wedding was over Sasuke and Hinata shook the hands of all the visitors. By the time they got to sasuke's home, Hinata's new home, the moon was high in the night's sky. Everyone had retired to their homes and their beds.
Hinata started at herself in the bathroom mirror. Sasuke's bedroom and bathroom was very large, even compared to what Hinata was used to. This wasn't Hinata's first time in Sasuke's home but it was her first time in his room. As soon as they entered the bedroom Hinata had excused herself to the bathroom and grabbed a change of clothes.
Now she's been in the bathroom a little over twenty minutes. Hinata knew she couldn't stay in there forever but she never wanted to go out there. As their first night as a married couple everyone expected them to have sex. It would be Hinata's first time with anyone sexually and sadly she wanted to put that off as long as possible now. How much torture did people expect her to go through in one day?
Hinata gathered up the last bit of courage and walked out of the bathroom. Sasuke was already in his sleepwear and on the bed. His head jerked in her direction when he heard her come out of the bathroom. She walked over to the bed and just stood there, waited for Sasuke to say or do something.
"While….are you coming to bed or aren't you?" Sasuke asked. Hinata could now see he was an impatient man. It must have been a trying day for him as well, right?
She slowly slide under the covers, this was the moment she would loss her virginity. She was scared.
Sasuke's coal colored eyes looks her over for a long time. Then he sighed to himself, as if gain whatever he had lost of long ago. "We don't have to have sex tonight if that what you worried about. It has been a long day, a good night's rest will prepare us both for tomorrow's trials." He said.
It was as if the heavens had opened up for Hinata and she could hear the choir sing. She gave Sasuke a smile filled with gratitude and turned over with her back face him.
They both stayed awake for a while, neither one moving. The trials of tomorrow would be greater than either of them realize.
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Hinata woke up to an empty bed, but not an empty room.
"Hinata, you're finally awake." It was Tomoko standing near the door. She quickly make her way to Hinata's bed side.
"Tomoko, w-what are you doing in h-here? What time is it?" Hinata asked.
"Well it's sometime in the late morning," she said. "And I'm now your personal servant since I was sent with you from your previous home."
"You know I hate when you call yourself servant, Tomoko."
"Yes but it's better than the word lesser. I would rather be called servant than lesser any day." Tomoko stated.
"Why?" Hinata asked curiously.
"Because for some people that word acknowledges you're weaker, easy to hurt and hard to defend. And some people play on that weakness….many clandred play on that weakness," Tomoko whispered the last few words. Tomoko loved Hinata even though she was a clandred, but Tomoko had a life before she was a servant to the Hyuuga and that life was rough.
Hinata now understood why her friend hated that word. Being a lesser meant you had no powers, and have no powers automatically made you weaker than the ones that did. Hinata then decided to never bring up the subject again, but promised herself that she'll never let a clandred hurt Tomoko simply because she was without powers.
Hinata got up and started the day, bathing and clothing herself. The cook already had breakfast done, he also informed her that Sasuke had ate and left only an hour before.
After Hinata finished her meal she decided she'd go to the king's tower, maybe Sasuke would give her something meaningful to do. She smiled at the possibility of being able to do something that'd actually help the people of Konohagakure.
Hinata walked into the double doors of the king's tower. There was no one at the front desk which was extremely odd. Hinata walked to the floor the king's office was on and he wasn't there.
'What in the world is going on here,' Hinata thought.
Hinata heard a door open then loud voices erupted through the hallway. The door slammed close and the voices had cease. She walked down the hallway where she heard the voices come from.
The council room.
Hinata open the door to the council room. Her presence was not even notice, everybody was too busy yelling at each other about what should be done. The whole council was there and the heads of every clandred clan was also there.
"This kingdom can't afford another war, less more want one," shout someone Hinata did not know.
"Whether we want a war or not doesn't matter. That letter dealt an absolute, we have no choice but to go to war." Shikamaru said loud enough to be heard over the other's voices. Hinata knew him fairly well and if he was bold enough to make such a declaration as that, then it must be true. Shikamaru is the youngest council member Konohagakure ever had, and he'd earned the right to be so. "It's either war or submitting to the new King of Sunagakure."
The room was completely silent after that comment. No one wanted to surrender to a foreign king, less more to a king that had a reputation of being cruel.
"Then what should we do, who will rule the people in your stead while you're away at war?" Someone asked.
"The council can't rule in your absence, that's prohibited." Another cried out.
"You need a monarch to rule while you're away at war," voices began illuminating the room again.
"Silence," Sasuke shouted. "I don't need a monarch because I have a queen." The people looked stunned, but no one was as shocked as Hinata. "It's not forbidden for the queen to rule while the king is away. In fact, the only person who can countermand a queen's command is the king himself or the united vote of all the council members."
The room filled with whispering voices, Konohagakure has never had a queen that actually ruled, not even in the place of the king while he was away.
"Hinata, come here….please," Sasuke said. When did he realize she was here, Hinata wondered. She slowly peeped her head from behind a group of men. Everybody but Sasuke was surprised to see her petite body come from behind the men.
Hinata felt like a scared pup with her tail between her legs. When Hinata wanted to do something meaningful for the people of Konohagakure she wasn't expecting to become their ruler. She quickly made her way to Sasuke.
"Before marrying me, Hinata was the heiress of the noblest clan in Konohagakure. Hinata got the teaching that would form her into an efficient ruler. I'm sure she will, with the guides of the council, be a fine ruler for this kingdom in my absence." Sasuke said. Hinata was surprise how much confidence he seemed to have in her and it warmed her heart to know so.
"But I heard she gave up her title as heiress," an elder council member said.
"That was only to stop a civil war that was occurring in the Hyuuga clan. And in doing so she stop it from getting too violent in the Hyuuga household, the clan has been prospering since." Neji said, defending his cousin.
"But you only say that because she gave the title of heir to you," the council member countered.
"I do no such thing," Neji growled. How dare this fart-face of a council member challenge what he says.
"That just proves Hinata knows what to do in order to protect the people she rules," Sasuke declared. "Hinata, as queen, will rule in my absence. This is my will and my will is law."
No one disputed Sasuke's claim. Hinata will rule Konohagakure in place of Sasuke during the war.
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A few days later, Sasuke left for war with an army. Mostly clandred males made up the army, their where a few female clandred but not many, and the lesser that did come where the closest thing Konohagakure had to doctors, doing nothing more than cleaning and stitching up wounds.
Just about all of Konohagakure was at the kingdom's gates to see their beloveds off.
Hinata had read the letter that was delivered the morning she walked in on the council meeting. It had truly declared an absolute of war like Shikamaru said.
"This is war…fight or accept me as your king…this is was…there is no negotiating this…this is war…try and make this transition of ruler easier for the people…this is war…this is war…"
Dread had consumed Hinata when she read the later and it consumed her again as she thought about it. The army was while out of sight now and the sun was setting as people where returning to their homes. As Hinata walked home with Tomoko by her side, she could already hear the cries of mourning woman and wanting babies. Tonight she too would go to sleep with a heavy heart.
Who would have thought the trials of yesterday would be so insignificant to the ones of today.
'There's no time like the present time,' Hinata thought as she felled into a not so peaceful slumber.
a/n: Hello everyone! I hope you like this chapter, I'll try and update again soon! Until then please review.