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Day 16 – Love spell - To Break A Curse
Hinata Hyuga had a secret, a secret only 3 other people in the whole world knew was certain however the whole village she lived in suspected. She'd tried hard to hide the secret, along with her younger sister and her two aunties they were all witches. Now don't get me wrong they're not evil witches they don't use dead man's toes or anything. No, they were real witches that used their powers for good. Hinata was a more of a natural witch than her younger sister Hanabi but didn't flaunt her powers, at least not anymore. When she was younger in school Hinata had loved her powers although she never used them for her own gain! Hinata liked to create her own medicines and herbal treatments.
Now you're probably wondering why Hinata and Hanabi lived with their aunties and not their parents, well that was because there is a curse on their family. Many generations ago, the first witch in their family, Kaguya Hyuga, had fallen in love with a man, when he had found out she was a witch he had reported her to the priest in the village. In those days they hung witches for crimes against God, it didn't matter if a witch was good they assumed all witches were evil, all under the influence of the devil. When they had tried to hang Kaguya she had used her powers of levitation to escape the noose and had fled straight away to the village Hinata and her family now live in. Kaguya had found out that she was pregnant and in her despair cast a spell on herself so that she would never fall in love again. What Kaguya hadn't took in to account was that she had cast the spell on herself and her unborn child. For her child when she had fallen in love and was beyond happy, her love was taken away from her in a 'freak accident' and so the spell continued to this day. So much so that when their mother had married their father and had both Hinata and Hanabi their family was truly happy. Then the dreaded day came when the curse took over and killed their father, at that time Hinata and Hanabi didn't know they were witches. In their mothers grief she had refused to leave her bed, food and water. No matter what Hinata and Hanabi did for their mother it was never enough to pull her out of her grief and only a couple of weeks after their fathers death they lost their mother too.
Growing up with their aunties they had learned about their powers and how to use them and most importantly how to control them. But living in a small village there had been many rumours throughout the years about their family. Hinata and Hanabi were bullied and teased on a daily basis by the other children their age chanting 'witch, witch, you're a witch" at them. Hanabi grew tired of the bullies and would occasionally fight back, one time she had got so angry with one boy she had pointed her finger at him and told him he would get bad ache and within a week his whole face was covered, of course this did nothing to dispel the rumours, it only strengthened them. Hinata though was very different to Hanabi, she found the bullying very hard to handle as a teenager she had become very shy and tried her hardest to at least seem normal.
Hinata and Hanabi had watched many times women seeking out their aunties help, they wanted their aunts to cast spells for them most of them were simple spells but others came for love spells. Upon hearing the curse on their family and then seeing other women come to their house for love spells Hinata had decided to create her own love spell. In their aunts garden one afternoon Hinata collected petals and other herbs in a wooden bowl. Hanabi had caught her gently swirling the petals around the bowl using her powers.
"What are you doing?" She asked.
"I'm casting a love spell." Hinata told her, "He will have...jet black hair, as black as midnight. He will have one red eye...and one purple eye."
"No one has those coloured eye?" Hanabi looked at her older sister liked she gone mad.
"Exactly, I'm casting a spell for a boy that doesn't exist and if he doesn't exist I can never die of a broken heart."
"What a waste of a spell." Hanabi muttered disappointedly.
"He will be as strong so he can protect me," Hinata continued with her spell, "He will be able hear my call a mile away. He will be able to flip pancakes high in the air perfectly."
"Oh sure cos that's important. Why not his manhood is as big as-"
"Hanabi!" Hinata warned.
Once she'd finished swirling the petals and herbs Hinata walked in to the garden and created a small blow of wind to send the petals in the air to carry them to the none existent boy of her dreams.
After high school and at the age of 18 Hinata had decided to stay in the village and developed her own natural balms, soaps and other cosmetic products, she helped her aunts at home with the gardening and helped with the general house work. Hanabi had escaped the village as soon as she finished high school and ran away with a man twice her age. On the night she had ran away Hinata had seen her off as the sisters had become so close throughout their childhoods, the deaths of their parents and the constant bullying had made their bond as sisters so strong they could even sense when the other was in danger. On that night they had made a pact together, they each had cut themselves with a small knife on their palms and had said; 'Your blood, my blood, our blood', a pact so that they would always be together no matter how far away the other was.
At the age of 18 Hinata had, in her aunts opinion, become rather lonely without her sister. They were all walking through the village happily, shopping in the market when a man, maybe a little older than Hinata, had walked past them and had watched Hinata with a certain look in his eye. Her aunt Francis had caught the look between the two and smiled knowingly.
"Hi." aunt Francis smiled at him, but he was far too distracted with Hinata, with her long hair reaching her hips, her womanly figure and her innocent eyes to even think about answering back. Hinata still being shy blushed at the man obviously staring at her and had bumped into one of the market stalls. Walking past one of the cherry blossoms had Hinata felt the petals fall upon her gracefully and had thought nothing of it.
"He seemed nice." Her aunt Francis commented once they were back home. Hinata decided it would be best not to comment and went straight to the garden. She wanted to get rid of some of the weeds growing in the flower beds while her aunts 'played cards'.
"What time is it?" Francis asked feeling agitated.
"Shhh." Aunt Brenda looked to Hinata to see if she may have heard. Hearing the clock from the village strike 3 Hinata suddenly felt the urge to find the man who had been staring at her that morning. Dropping her garden tools Hinata ran out of the gates from the garden in the direction of the town. It was a very strange feeling but Hinata hadn't even questioned it all she knew was she had to find this man and kiss him. Running through the village she somehow knew where he would be, it felt almost like fate was pulling them together. When she finally saw him Hinata slowed down her pace to a rather faster walk and smiled widely at him. He stood there in the middle of the path way and opened his arms to her. Hinata ran at him again and jumped in to his waiting arms wrapping her legs around his hips and her arms around his neck she smiled widely when she felt his arms wrap around her waist and seeing him smiling back at her and then they kissed. It was a passionate kiss for a first kiss and turned out to be one of many. Within a year the two were married and within 3 years they had two beautiful daughters.
The family had decided to settle in village and once they were financially stable they bought their own house near Hinata's aunts. Kiba loved using Hinata's home made balms from her shaving foam to the shampoo she created, so much so he had encouraged her to sell them in the shop. However Hinata had struggled from the start to try and encourage the local market stalls to sell any of her products. Hinata knew deep down that they were reluctant to sell them because the locals still thought she was a witch, even though now she was older and had her own family they never said anything. She had actually stopped using magic all together not wanting to scare Kiba away.
On their 5th wedding anniversary Kiba had noticed Hinata was struggling to find anyone willing to sell her products so he had decided to take matters in to his own hands, he had bought her her very own shop.
Hinata had never felt happier! She had 2 beautiful children, a marvellous husband, their own house and shop. But like she had been warned by her aunts the curse struck at her happiest time. When Hinata had first heard the beetle she had cast it off, thinking it was silly. But an hour later she could still hear it and she panicked, she pulled up the wooden floorboards in their bedroom desperately looking for the beetle, hoping if she found it and killed it the curse would not come.
Kiba was in town loading many of Hinata's products from a small truck and into the store ready for Hinata to be able open the shop a week later. He'd had to park on the other side of the road as there was no space outside the shop, crossing the busy road with two boxes piled on top of one another Kiba hadn't seen the car coming the other way.
Back at home Hinata's desperate attempt to find and kill the beetle stopped when she could hear the beetle no more. She rapidly pulled on her shoes and ran as fast as she could to the store only to see an ambulance and police preventing her from going down the main road. Hinata tried to look what had happened and gasped when she saw Kiba's favourite jacket. Running to the police officer Hinata caught the look he gave her, a look full of grief and sympathy.
"No!" Hinata cried knowing what he was going to say.
"I'm...so sorry Hinata, it's Kiba."
Hinata fell to her knees crumbling to the floor feeling the pain of loosing Kiba consume her immediately and cried like she had never cried before. She cried for Kiba, for him having to loose his life and all because he had loved her. For their girls to have lost their father and of course for herself, for the future they would never be able to share together. Now she knew how her mother had felt all those years ago, why she couldn't eat, drink or even move from her bed. She begged her aunts to bring him back, to use their magic and bring him back to life but they told her they couldn't. It wouldn't be natural, he wouldn't be the Kiba she loved. The aunts then told her how sorry they were, they didn't mean this happen for Hinata to be hurt in anyway.
"W-What do you mean?" Hinata asked them.
"We-We created a spell..."
"No. No tell me you didn't!" Hinata pleaded. She knew then, the aunts had cast a spell on her and Kiba to fall in love.
"We didn't know you would actually love him."
"Well I did...I really did." Hinata cried even harder, "I loved him more than anything in the world."
On the day of the funeral, a week later, Hinata and her two girls moved into her aunts house. Hinata couldn't live in the house that had once been hers and Kiba's there too many memories there for her to handle. Now the girls had the aunts to look after them Hinata did just as her mother before her, she lay in bed letting the grief take her more and more each day. The girls were ages 7 and 5 but were mature for their age, she tried to encourage Hinata each day to get out of bed, to take them to school like she use to. They did get her to eat here and there and the aunts had told them that was a good sign.
Hanabi had heard what had happened to Hinata and had at first tried to stay away, she didn't want to see her sister like her mother and didn't know how to even start by helping her. This may seem harsh but the way Hanabi first saw it was if she couldn't help her own mother then how on earth did she help her sister? That and the fact she had found a man of her own. He was named Konohamaru and was a little older than her, he was a kind a decent man, one Hanabi had never come across before, but now hearing about Kiba Hanabi had distanced herself from Konohamaru, she was afraid to get closer to him and fall in love with him. Hanabi found herself looking at the scar on her palm from when Hinata and herself had made their blood pact to always be together and there for each other no matter what, then after receiving a letter from her aunts Hanabi had decided, a week after Hinata had moved into their aunts house, she would try her best to go and help her older sister. She left a note to Konohamaru telling him goodbye, she didn't have the courage to say it to his face and left that afternoon with all her things.
Arriving at her aunts a couple of days later Hanabi had greeted them warmly, her two nieces were in bed when Hanabi had arrived as it was gone midnight. This was the first time she was back in the village after running away, the first time she would see Hinata and meet her two nieces. Through out the years Hinata and Hanabi had been keeping in contact through letters and in their dreams. They had realised after their blood pact they could see each other in their dreams and connect through them.
After greeting her aunts and taking her belongings into one of the guest bedrooms Hanabi felt it was best to not prolong seeing her sister any longer. Walking in to Hinata's room Hanabi saw empty cups all over and dirty dishes on her bed. Hinata herself couldn't be seen but Hanabi could make out her shape under the covers. Walking over to the bed Hanabi climbed under the covers and smiled at her sister who woke up feeling the bed shift.
"Hanabi?" Hinata asked groggily, "Is-Is this a dream?" Hanabi shook her head slowly at Hinata's question and showed her her palm, the palm with the scar on it. Hinata smiled and touched her younger sisters palm with her own, Hanabi linked their fingers and gave her sisters hand a small kiss.
"I-I miss him so much." Hinata began to cry, something she hadn't allowed herself to do since the day of Kiba's funeral. Hanabi pulled Hinata into her embrace and held on tight to her, allowing Hinata to cry as much as she needed.
"Hinata?" Hanabi asked, checking if she had fallen asleep again after a couple of hours crying.
"Mmmm." Hinata answered.
"You have to get up. You have to be there for your girls," Hanabi told her gently, "You can't let them grow up without both their parents. You have to be strong for them and continue with your life. Please don't be like mum." She pleaded. "Plus you really need a shower and to brush your teeth cos you stink." Hinata laughed, she couldn't help it Hanabi always knew how to make her smile again. She had felt so numb and drained only a couple of hours ago but now with Hanabi here she felt alive again. The two sisters stayed up talking for the rest of the night, Hanabi told Hinata of Konohamaru and how scared she was now to fall in love and Hinata had encouraged Hanabi to not be scared, that love was worth it and they would work together to break the curse on them. Hinata would do anything to make sure Hanabi would be happy, she wanted Hanabi to experience love for the first time and she could see that this Konohamaru was already having an effect on Hanabi.
As dawn approached Hinata came to the conclusion her younger sister was indeed right, she had to pull herself together for her girls! Getting in the shower and going through her morning routine Hinata looked at her reflection in the mirror whilst dressing, she had lost some weight already and would need to get herself back to health.
"mummy?" Her eldest daughter Akio walked hesitantly into Hinata's bedroom.
"Hey sweetie." Hinata turned on the stool where she sat at her dressing table.
"You're up!" Akio called and ran to her mothers arms. Hinata hugged Akio tightly treasuring the moment, when she looked to the door over Akio's shoulder she saw her youngest daughter Amaya stood in the doorway, Hinata held out her arms to Amaya who ran into them also.
"Well isn't this an adorable picture." Hanabi smiled at the three girls hugging.
"Aunt Hinabi!" Akio called and ran on to the bed with Amaya following soon after.
Konohamaru sat in the car with his friend Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha on their way to Hanabi's village. Konohamaru had found Hanabi's note after he'd finished work and had quickly called Naruto asking for advice. Konohamaru had admitted to Naruto the previous night that he was falling in love with Hanabi and wanted to take their relationship to the next level by officially asking her to move in with him. But finding the letter Konohamaru didn't know what to do, did this mean she didn't love him like he'd thought? Did she not want him like she'd been telling him for months now? Naruto had calmed Konohamaru down and advised him to follow Hanabi and ask her himself. They could have spoken on the phone but Naruto had told him that it was best to do it face to face. The only problem was Konohamaru couldn't drive, he had never learned, being in a large town he hadn't seen the point with the good public transport and Naruto had the same problem, he did however have a friend Sasuke who had his own car and would hopefully drive them to Hanabi's village. Sasuke had agreed to help them but only to stop them nagging him.
"What do I say to her when I get there?" Konohamaru asked Naruto nervously.
"Tell her how you feel." Naruto suggested.
"Oh give me a break." Sasuke rolled his eyes concentrating on the road.
"Oh don't listen to him Konohamaru he's just grumpy cos he's never been in love." Naruto jokingly shook Sasuke's hair messing it up completely. "What was it? Waiting for the special girl?"
"Oh shut up Dobe." Sasuke sighed trying to hide his embarrassment. Yes he had said that when they were growing up, he had always felt there was a special girl or woman now out there for him. Sometimes he had even dreamt of her, dreamt what she could look like. He'd always imagined her to be curvy, he never had been attracted to girls who were thin. Petite, so that she only came up to his chest. In his dreams he never saw her face but he would see her long hair flowing in the wind, each time he'd seen her it would take his breath away.
They had been travelling now for a couple of days and would soon arrive at their destination, Naruto and Konohamaru were now asleep in the back seat finally giving Sasuke a chance to clear his thoughts. He was glad to get away from their town if truth be told, he needed to get away from the grime of the city and hopefully this peaceful village would be the perfect place for him to escape to at least for a little while.
Finally arriving in the village Sasuke parked up outside the only inn available and the three men had each bought a room. They decided to rest for the night as it was now very late to be finding where Hanabi lived. Given the small size of the village Sasuke could only conclude it would not take them long in the morning to find the house. He did find it very strange that Hanabi had never told Konohamaru the address of where she lived while growing up, only the village. But he didn't think it was any of his business and went straight to sleep.
The next morning after dressing and having their fill of breakfast the three men walked to the villages main road. There was a row of many different shops Sasuke found himself pausing outside a shop called 'Hyuga cosmetics' it claimed to be an all natural shop. Sasuke looked through the window and saw many products on offer that he liked the look of but unfortunately the shop was closed at the moment.
"That's her last name!" Konohamaru shouted excitedly.
Asking the village locals Konohamaru learned where Hanabi lived although they were now being warned not to go and seek her out by many of the locals. The locals had told them that the Hyuga's were known to be witches, which made Sasuke chuckle, what a load of bullshit he thought there was no such thing as witches.
Not being deterred from the reason they were here Konohamaru, Naruto and Sasuke walked in the direction of the Hyuga house. From the locals they had been told Hanabi lived with her aunts growing up she also had an older sister called Hinata who had only a month ago lost her husband in a hit and run accident. Getting closer to the house Sasuke felt a strange pull, he had no idea why he felt he should be here but something inside him was telling him he belonged here.
Hinata, Hanabi and their aunts began to make breakfast, the girls favourites; pancakes. The aunts seeing Hinata walk down the stairs for the first time in weeks gave her a kiss on her forehead and had told her how glad they were she was up and about again. Hinata felt truly blessed to have an amazing family, they were all so caring and loving she didn't feel she deserved at times.
"Mummy is my turn to mix now." Amaya complained watching Akio mix the pancake batter.
"I've not finished yet!" Akio protested.
"Akio let Amaya have a go please." Hinata sighed, she loved her two girls but it was rapidly dawning on her how hard it would be to raise them on her own. She didn't feel she could allow herself to fall in love again so the thought of another man coming into their lives and helping Hinata raise them was unthinkable. Hanabi laughed at her nieces antics, she loved them so much already and didn't think she would ever be able to not see them in so long again.
In the time Hinata had been in bed stricken with her grief the aunts had told the girls they were witches, they were teaching them about their craft and heritage. The girls had even found Hinata's old journals with her old spells in, they couldn't understand why their mother had turned her back on magic for so long. The thought having powers was very exciting for them and they had quickly began to learn a few simple ones with the aid of the aunts.
Hearing a hesitant couple of knocks on their front door Akio and Amaya ran out of the kitchen, Akio being the quicker of the two (only because she had longer legs Amaya pointed out) opened the door and looked at the three men standing there.
"Umm hello?" The younger of the three men spoke, "I'm looking for Hanabi Hyuga does she live here?"
"Depends who's asking." Akio replied.
From the kitchen Hanabi heard Konohamaru's voice and immediately jumped out of her seat at the breakfast table and ran to the door.
"Girls why don't you go help your mum with the pancakes." Hanabi advised. He two girls looked from the men to their aunt puzzled.
"Girls?!" Hinata called walking from the kitchen into the hallway, "Oh I'm sorry I didn't realise they were-" Hinata stopped in her tracks seeing the man Hanabi had described only the night before who was obviously Konohamaru.
"Er hello." Naruto spoke trying to relieve some of the tension building in the air.
"W-What are you doing here?" Hanabi whispered to Konohamaru.
"I-I needed to talk to you."
"Well now is not-"
"Invite them in Hanabi," Hinata smiled at her sister to the three men on the porch way, "They must have travelled a long way and I'm sure they would like some breakfast."
"Er actually we already..Ow-"
"That would be great thank you!" Sasuke spoke over Naruto after stomping on his foot. Sasuke moved past Konohamaru and Naruto who were looking at him stunned.
"We're having pancakes!" The younger girl told the three men frantically as if this information was the most amazing news they would hear all day.
"Really?" Sasuke smirked at the young girl, "Well it just so happens I can flip the best pancakes."
"Wow!" The girl looked astounded, "Will you show us?"
"You bet." The two girls grabbed both his hands and pulled him in to the kitchen.
"Ok you watching?" Sasuke asked the young girls smiling at them.
"Yes!" They both answered in unison.
Naruto and Konohamaru watched the scene in complete bewilderment not once had Sasuke ever shown any interest in wanting to talk to children, back in Suna he was known to be harsh and sometimes cold, in this house they were seeing a whole new side to Sasuke.
Hanabi and the two aunts sat at the table along with Konohamaru and Naruto and were talking among themselves. While Hinata watched Sasuke and her girls with a smile on her face, seeing them so happy was something she hoped she would be able to do herself soon.
"Ok 1, 2, 3." Sasuke flipped the pancake out of the frying pan into the air expertly, the pancake turned in the air and went so high it nearly touched the ceiling. Holding out the frying pan Sasuke caught the pancake and smiled hearing the girls amazement of 'wow' and 'that was totally wicked'. Sasuke bowed jokingly at their applause and continued to flip pancake after pancake much the the girls delight.
"I have to warn you I think Amaya and Akio would be wanting you to come for breakfast more often." Hinata chuckled at Sasuke once everyone had eaten.
"Well I'm here all week." He smiled back and helped Hinata with the dishes.
"Thank you."
"For helping with the dishes? It's no trouble I do them all the time at home living with Naruto if I don't do them they don't get done." Sasuke chuckled with Hinata.
"No I meant for making them smile, I haven't seen them this excited since...well in a while." Hinata drifted off and quickly went back to concentrating on the dirty plate in her hand.
"Who's is the shop in town? I noticed it had your families last name."
"Oh that would be mine." Hinata blushed, "I-It isn't open yet though."
"That's a shame I saw some products in the window I liked the look of."
"O-Oh really? Which ones? I have a few here if you want to take some?"
"The shaving gel looked good, I can never find one that I really like they all seem so...wrong."
Hinata nodded her head in understanding and gave him a small smile.
"I'm sure I have some upstairs, I'll go fetch some if you like?"
"I'll pay." Sasuke offered.
"Oh no, please it's on me, after all I'd like to thank you for bringing the smiles back to Amaya's and Akio's faces. It the least I can do." Sasuke nodded and watched as Hinata walked out the kitchen and up the stairs.
Sasuke couldn't believe it! Something about being here with Hinata and her daughters told him he belonged here, with them! That and he was almost positive Hinata coulf in fact be the girl from his dreams which he realised sounded crazy!
"She just lost her husband a month ago remember? You think it wise to flirt with her?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Sasuke brushed off Naruto's questions and walked out into the large garden where the girls were playing happily, the aunts were playing cards and kept looking at him in an odd way. He could see Konohamaru and Hanabi talking together, it looked very animated and intimate Sasuke didn't feel it would be wise to intrude.
Seeing the two girls laughing while playing tag Sasuke smiled but then quickly bit his lip not wanting anyone else to see. Then all of a sudden a few of the village children came round the corner of the bushes and pointed at the girls then began to chant; 'witch, witch, you're a witch' over and over again. The two girls quickly stopped playing, stopped laughing and backed away from the fence. Sasuke rapidly walked up to the girls and stood in front of them, trying to protect them somehow.
"Get lost all of you!" Sasuke shouted at the group of kids the anger at these kids making his eyes flash red and purple. Akio looked up at Sasuke at awe suddenly remembering her mothers love spell in her old journal.
"Is that your new daddy Akio? How long will this one last? A month?" One of the kids shouted seeing her looking at Sasuke. Akio feeling hurt and upset by the boys remark pointed at the child who shouted and spoke in a venomous voice.
"S-Shut up! I-I hope you get...chicken pox." The children around the fencing all gasped and quickly moved away from their friend.
"Akio!" Hinata shouted, suddenly coming up behind them and grabbing her hand to stop her pointing, "We don't do that." She whispered.
The children ran off as fast as they could all wanting to get away from the 'grown up witches'.
"They-They started it!" Akio protested, "They-they said horrible things about daddy and Sasuke." Akio began to cry for having her mother shout at her and what the boy had said.
"You have to learn to ignore them." Hinata crouched down and tried wiping her Akio's face gently but she moved away feeling hurt.
"Why-Why can't you just use your powers? You have all this power and do nothing with it!" Akio shouted and ran up into the house with Amaya following after her.
Hinata sighed to herself and looked up at Sasuke who offered his hand to help her up and took it graciously.
"You'd think they could come up with a better chant after all these years." She frowned to herself.
"Get that a lot do you? Being called a witch?"
"Yes." Hinata blushed.
"You don't seem like the typical witches I've heard of. I don't see any devil worship anyway."
"Oh no there's no devil in the craft." Hinata answered appalled at the idea.
"So er...What kind of craft do you do?" Sasuke asked expecting Hinata to laugh off his question.
"Do I do? I manufacture natural bath oils, soaps, hand lotions and shaving gel and the aunts, they like to medal in peoples love lives."
"And Hanabi?" Sasuke couldn't believe they were talking about this, was Hinata actually admitting she was a witch? Her whole family were witches?
"Hanabi, well she has her own set of talents." Hinata gave a small knowing smile and looked over at Hanabi and Konohamaru talking.
"This is very interesting." Aunt Francis spoke watching Hinata and Sasuke talking, "Maybe we could-"
"Oh no we don't, not after the last spell we cast on Hinata." Aunt Brenda cut her off. "We have to let them figure this out for themselves this time."
"So...How did it go with Hanabi?" Naruto asked once they left the Hyuga house an hour later.
"She told me that seeing Hinata in so much pain after loosing Kiba scared her. That she was afraid to admit she is in love with me. But she is!" Konohamaru shouted with a smile taking over his whole face.
"You seemed to working your charms on Hinata." Naruto winked at Sasuke.
"Oh please." Sasuke rolled his eyes at his friend, "We talked and that's all. And anyway like you said she just lost her husband I doubt she is even thinking of another man."
"But, she is peaking your none existent interest." Naruto pointed out. Sasuke chose not to say anything and looked back at the Hyuga house, seeing the two young girls looking out of the window he gave them a small wave and reluctantly walked away.
"Look! Look!" Akio pulled there mothers journal off the book shelf and had flipped it open on to the page Hinata had wrote her love spell.
"What are you girls looking at?" Hanabi asked suspiciously.
"N-Nothing." Amaya tried to hide the book and look innocent, failing completely. Hanabi laughed at the girls and ran in to their room, tackling them on their bed and tickling them she gabbed hold of the book and looked down at it in astonishment.
"Where did you find this?" Hanabi asked.
"It was mummy's right? When she was little."
"Yes." Hanabi confirmed, then looked at the two girls giggling. "Oh dear, why are you giggling like that?"
"Look!" Amaya showed the Hanabi the love spell page. "He can flip pancakes high in the air perfectly." She looked at her aunt Hanabi with wide eyes trying to make her understand.
"He will have jet black hair, as black as midnight. He will have one red eye and one purple eye...But this was just a silly spell you mum created about a boy who doesn't exist."
"But he does!" Akio told her, "It's Sasuke."
"He didn't have one red eye and one purple eye?"
"He does when he's angry!" Amaya smiled, "Do you think he can makes mummy happy again? Really happy." She asked her aunt Hanabi sadly.
"I don't know, maybe-"
"I made hot chocolate does anyone want some?" Hinata asked standing in the girls bedroom door way.
"With marshmallows?" Amaya questioned.
"With lots of marshmallows." Hinata smiled.
"Oh me! Me!" The girls ran out the room and down the stairs into the kitchen.
"Everything alright?" Hinata asked seeing Hanabi looking in wonder at an old book.
"Hmm? Oh..Oh yes, perfect." Hanabi quickly placed the book on the girls book shelf and followed Hinata down stairs.
While the girls were in school the next day Hinata decided to go to her shop and get it ready for opening, she needed to somehow make money and earn a living after all. She had found it hard and strange at first being in the shop that Kiba had bought her, she looked around sadly at the walls he had painted and how he had made it perfect for her with it's glass shelving, the shop looked beautiful and it was all thanks to Kiba. Hanabi arrived not long after her and began helping Hinata move all her products on to the shelves, they talked happily between themselves but Hanabi could tell Hinata was struggling.
"Hey." Sasuke knocked on the door and pushed it open, "I hope you don't mind me just barging in."
"No not at all please come in." Hinata smiled. Hanabi watched the two of them remembering the love spell, she had to see for herself somehow if the girls had been right about Sasuke's eyes.
"I just wanted to let you know I used the shaving gel today and it's great. I was hoping I could buy some more to take home with me."
"Really?" Hinata's face brightened. "Oh what about the smell? I gave you vanilla and citrus one right? I can change it if you don't like it."
"No I actually like that one, which is strange cos usually I hate sweet things."
"How about I give you a gift pack with a range of them in? You are my first official customer after all." Hinata blushed.
"Sounds perfect." Sasuke smiled.
"You know you can umm eat it too. Kiba use to like..." Hinata stopped herself and looked to the floor. "I'll be right back." Hinata excused herself quickly.
Sasuke stayed in the shop for the rest of the day, helping Hinata and Hanabi getting all the products out on the shelves, he even set up the new till for Hinata and showed her how to work it. Hanabi all the while watched them seeing how Hinata was comfortable talking to Sasuke and vis versa they looked like they would make a beautiful couple. Hanabi began to hope beyond anything Sasuke was the man from Hinata's love spell.
Later that night once the girls were sleeping soundly in their beds and Hinata had checked on them then decided to take a relaxing bath. So relaxing in fact she had fallen asleep and woke up in the now cold water, quickly grabbing a towel and changing into her pjs Hinata went to go check on the girls again, just to be sure they were definitely alright and saw the old book Hanabi had been looking at yesterday. Looking at the front cover Hinata suddenly realised she knew this book, it was her journal! She looked at the page the girls had folded over the top of and read the love spell she had created and wrote in her handwriting, however underneath the spell in Akio's writing was name a name: Sasuke Uchiha.
Hinata gasped and quickly ran to Hanabi's room and woke her.
"H-Have you seen this?" Hinata asked frantically.
"Go away it's to early." Hanabi mumbled still sleepily.
"They think Sasuke is the man from my love spell."
Hanabi rolled over and looked at her sister who was now panicking and pacing her room.
"Really?" Hanabi tried to lie.
"This was the page you had been looking at yesterday, isn't it?"
"Well you have to admit the spell could have worked."
"But-But I imagined a man who didn't exist, couldn't exist."
"Maybe he does." Hanabi spoke.
Sasuke woke up with a start during the night, feeling the pull he had felt the first time he had seen Hinata's house and again when he had the sudden urge to seek out Hinata in her store. However this feeling was a little different somehow it was more of a panic urge, he knew that this feeling was telling him that something was wrong with Hinata. Leaping out of bed Sasuke quickly pulled on his shoes and jacket and ran to Hinata's house not daring to second guess the feeling.
Hinata couldn't help but look at the page with the love spell, now with Sasuke's name written on it. How could this even be possible?
"Hinata?!" Sasuke banged on the front door making Hinata jump. "Hinata? Are you alright?"
Hinata quickly hurried to the door and let him in. "You're not hurt or anything?" He quickly asked looking her over.
"No, I'm fine. Well I'm not fine I'm just..." Hinata looked down and saw she was in just her cami top and short pjs and quickly grabbed a jacket off one of the pegs, rapidly covering herself up. "Why are you here?"
"I...Well it's hard to explain."
"Can I ask you a question?" Seeing Sasuke nod she quickly continued while she still had the courage, "Do you...Do you have one red eye and one purple eye?" Sasuke looked at her in shock.
"Yes." Sasuke gulped.
"And tonight, did you maybe feel something was wrong? With me?"
"I...Yes." Sasuke answered tentatively, "Hinata what is going on?"
Hinata blushed and showed him her journal from her childhood.
"But...But this is me?" Sasuke looked at her confused.
"I-I created this spell thinking you wouldn't exist. That no man like this could exist ever."
"What does this mean? That I only feel what I feel cos of a spell?"
"I don't know."
Sasuke frowned at the page, all this time he had dreamt of a girl, a girl with long hair, petite and curvy, a girl who he now knew was Hinata and it was all some spell! He didn't know what to think, he was angry, confused and hurt he was feeling what he was feeling and all because of some hocus pocus! It was fake! A lie!
"I have to go." Sasuke turned and slammed the front door behind him.
Sasuke and Naruto packed their things into his car the following morning, Konohamaru had decided to stay and was actually looking at renting out a house in the village. After talking with Hanabi the past couple of days they had decided to give their relationship a proper go, they both knew they were in love and couldn't see anyone else in their futures, but Hanabi was reluctant to leave her family behind again so Konohamaru had decided to stay in the village for the sake of their relationship.
After saying their goodbyes Sasuke and Naruto began to make their way back to Suna. Driving past Hinata's shop Sasuke couldn't help but look through the window to check if she was there, but he knew she wasn't, he knew that cos the pull he'd felt towards her was not there. He tried not to let it worry him, tried not to be angry but Naruto knew him all too well.
"So you gong to see Hinata again? Did you exchange numbers?"
"No we didn't." Sasuke told him.
"And you don't want to?"
"I don't know. Yes and no." Sasuke held on the the steering wheel tighter as the left the village border. Then all of a sudden he felt it, the pull with in him telling him Hinata was near by. Seeing a car pulled over on the side of the road.
"Hey that's Hinata!" Naruto pointed at the woman who was sat on her car hood. "Pull over she might need some help."
"She doesn't."
"How do you know?" Naruto asked seeing his friend being stubborn.
"I just do alright!" Sasuke shouted and drove past Hinata.
Months rolled by and to Hinata each day felt like a blur. When the girls had found out Sasuke had gone they hadn't spoken to her for a couple of weeks, they felt it was her fault Sasuke had left and in a way it was. Each night she found herself thinking about him, thinking of what could have been, how happy they could have been together. She tried not to show the girls she was upset and went about her daily life; dropping the girls off at school, opening up the shop that was now a success so much so Hinata had had to hire Hanabi to help her out with making the products and selling them. She tried not to show how jealous she was of Hanabi being so happy with Konohamaru and when they had told her they were engaged Hinata was truly happy for them but at the same time she was sad. Sad because that could have been Sasuke and her one day, she had thought she would never be with another man after Kiba but now Sasuke was all she could think about. But still she tried each and every day to make it better than the last. Enjoying being with the girls, watching them grow and treasuring each and every moment.
Standing in the shop Hinata looked up at one of the locals, Bryce and sighed.
"Mrs Inuzuka I have a bone to pick with you." He told her sounding annoyed.
"What can I don for you Bryce." Hinata tried not to sigh, being distracted by Bryce Hinata didn't see another person walk through the door.
"Now...I could have gone to a qualified doctor and attended to this scalp condition I have, but I didn't I stupidly chose to come here. The more I use the less it works," Bryce pulled out the small bottle of the brown paper bag, "The product doesn't work!" He shouted.
"Well, that's because it doesn't go on your head." Hinata told him sternly.
"If I don't put it on my head for a scalp condition where the hell else would it go?!"
"Try to remember." Hinata recommended and looked from his face to his crotch. Bryce looked from Hinata, to the bottle and then to his crotch.
"Oh er...My mistake." He quickly placed the bottle back in it's bag and rapidly left the shop. Hinata heard a man chuckle from the side of the shop and glanced at him then looked away. Then suddenly she realised who it was and looked back stunned.
"Hello." Sasuke smirked at her.
"Sasuke? What...You're here?" She couldn't help but smile, a real smile for what felt like the first in weeks and it probably was.
"I needed some more of that shaving gel."
"Oh." Hinata tried not to be to disappointed.
"That and I couldn't keep away from you and the girls any longer."
Hinata gasped and ran out from behind the counter and threw herself into his arms.
"I missed you." She whispered.
"I know, I felt you calling to me even from Suna."
"But but the spell only stated a mile away." Hinata said astonished.
"Hmm, then maybe it's not just a spell anymore." Sasuke smirked down at her. Moving a hand from her waist to her chin he slowly pulled her closer to him until their lips were only millimetres a part. Hinata closed her eyes knowing what would happen next and closed the gap between them pressing her lips softly against Sasuke's. She moaned out loud when Sasuke pressed his lip against hers even more and slightly opened her mouth giving him access to brush their tongues together. Hinata felt a warm glow within her, coming from her heart and felt as the warm glow expanded from her, to the whole shop and beyond. She felt as the curse that Kaguya had cast on their whole family break. She broke away from the kiss gasping for air feeling pure euphoria, she had done it! She had broken the curse so Hanabi and herself could finally love the men they loved without worrying about the curse any longer.
"I have to warn you Hinata," Sasuke whispered in her ear, "I will never be needing that product that man just walked out with." And closed the gap between their mouths once more.
A couple of years later on a glorious summer afternoon, Hinata and Sasuke stood at the bottom of the aisle in the church in their village. Hinata felt pure joy watching Hanabi and Konohamaru saying their vows and finally becoming husband and wife. Hinata smiled over at Sasuke who was one of Konohamaru's grooms men and Hinata was Hanabi's maid of honour. Standing in the church brought back the memories of Sasuke and herself saying their wedding only vows last Christmas.
They were incredibly happy together, they now lived in their own house with Akio, Amaya and soon they would have a new addition to their family. Hinata rubbed her obvious 7 month pregnant belly tenderly, thinking of their unborn son Hinata hoped he would just like Sasuke.
Sasuke watched his wife stroke her belly and smiled broadly. He couldn't believe how happy his life had become in such a short space of time. He adored Akio and Amaya who now called him dad, Sasuke had been hesitant at first when they first called him dad, he didn't want Hinata to think he was trying to take Kiba's place. But the girls had insisted and Hinata assured him she loved that they called him dad. Now they were having a son too, a boy hadn't been born into the Hyuga family in many generations they took it as a sure sign the curse was definitely broken. Sasuke loved to watch Hinata and the girls do magic, Hinata's family were indeed a witches and he loved that they didn't feel the need to hide it from him and there were some definite advantages to your wife being a witch, one of them of course being he could now use all Hinata's products for free.
"I love you." Hinata whispered as they walked out the church back down the aisle together.
"I love you too." Sasuke linked their hands and kissed her passionately.
"I can't wait to fall in love." Amaya sighed happily seeing her mother and aunt Hanabi so happy.
"Oh no young lady," Sasuke picked her up in his arms, "You'll have to wait many many years for that."
The aunts watched as Sasuke and Hinata walked out of the church, with Amaya in Sasuke's arms, Akio holding her mothers hand and the new addition to their family on the way.