It'd been nearly five years since Hidan had really shown Obito who the better man was and taken the girl that he loved from him.
He didn't love Rin, not at all in fact, no matter how attractive she was. Though, he had to admit, she was pretty great in bed. And that was honestly his favorite thing about her.
They still hadn't been married, but only because every date he'd set, he'd had to push back for one reason or another. His father would live a long life with his skill of slow aging, so it wasn't as if it were an emergency to be married anyway.
Hidan's skill was quick healing, so he knew he'd live a pretty long life as well, especially with Jashin on his side. Rin probably wouldn't, but that certainly didn't bother him. She was there in Guilder and sleeping with him and not Obito and that was all he really cared about.
It had been a couple of nights since he'd gone to her room and he'd already decided to go again tonight.
He had a couple of girls he liked visiting, but Rin was special in that everytime they were together he'd write it down and rate it, to hopefully show Obito one day. He hadn't seen that pathetic loser since stealing his girl, but that would just mean higher numbers and a deeper wound to open when he did see him.
"Hinata, do you think you could give Rin and I some privacy tonight," he asked his little sister as they ate their dinner. He was always very polite to Hinata, he didn't know why, but he always had been and it had always been genuine.
Hinata rolled her eyes at him. "Brother, this is hardly an appropriate meal discussion, but if you wish to kick me out of my own room, yet again, then you know the secret knock," she said as she glanced over at Rin. They were both pretty used to the routine by now, but it was still rather annoying. Why did they have to share a room anyway? This was a huge castle with an abundance of space, afterall.
"Right, I just thought that maybe you could be out of the room before I showed up this time. It's always awkward having to see you before–"
"Hidan, you're the one that asked me to help her to get ready when you come for your visits. With that make-up you always like her to wear. She doesn't know how to do make-up!" Hinata reminded him.
Hidan stared blankly for a moment as the conversation seemed to materialize in his memory. "Oh, that's right. I do really like that make-up on her. It's very nice, but most things are on her," he said as a matter of fact, though he wasn't sure why.
"That's all well and good, big brother, just stick to the routine."
"I agree," Rin added softly. She tended to keep her head down around Hidan, but since Hinata had come to live in the castle a few weeks after Rin had arrived, there hadn't been any wicked or cruel outbursts from him like there had in the beginning. He'd said some pretty vicious things to her in the beginning…
"I apologize," Hidan said with a slight nod to Rin.
She saw the nod from the corner of her eye and gave him a slight nod in return. "I forgive you."
"She might not next time," Hinata warned in a harsh tone. "Alright, well I'm quite full, Rin?" she asked as she stood up.
"Yes, I'm ready for our walk."
The two walked together after dinner every night. In fact, the pair were never apart from one another. Day or night. They were completely inseparable and it drove Hidan a little insane never being able to see or even speak to Rin without his little sister present. Except for when they slept together and even then, Hinata didn't permit them much time. So he complimented her various body parts as much as he could during those times as that was all he ever really cared to discuss with her anyway.
It wasn't too long after returning to their room after their walk when Hidan showed up and knocked their secret knock.
Rin sighed, like she often did and Hinata went to answer the door. "Bit early tonight, Brother, don't you think?"
Hidan rubbed the back of his neck and rolled his eyes impatiently. "I know. I just couldn't wait any longer, could you leave now?"
"Did you clear the hall?"
He looked at her incredulously, he knew her biggest rule by now. She didn't want any of the guards talking about Rin inappropriately and he'd decided at some point that that was probably for the best, though he couldn't remember why he'd made that decision. "Gone."
She raised her eyebrow at him, which only increased his irritability. "All of them?"
He nodded once and then looked past Hinata at Rin who seemed to be waiting for him on her bed. He realized now that she hadn't had time to put her make-up on yet, so he really was quite early. "Can we be alone now?" he asked Hinata more politely than he had meant to.
"Let her freshen up first, you can wait in her bed for her." She turned back to Rin and jerked her head towards the powder room and then let Hidan in as Rin got up. "I'll give you thirty minutes."
"Come on, sis, forty-five this time," he begged her.
"Fine. But not a second longer and remember not to lock the door because it sticks."
He nodded again and kissed her cheek before closing the door. He did think to lock it, but as soon as he did, his entire body started to tingle until he stopped thinking about it.
He stripped off all of his clothes as he made his way to Rin's bed and was completely undressed by the time he was there. "Come on out here, Sweetie," he said as he put his hands behind his head and waited with the covers completely off of him.
Forty-five minutes to the second had passed and Hidan left the room completely satisfied, elated even, with the same grin he always wore when he left her bed.
All he could think about was how amazing she'd felt and how pretty she had been with her make-up done just the way he liked.
Rin closed the door behind him and went to lay on Hinata's bed. "I wish you could just get him to stop coming in here at all," she said, exasperated. "He snores so loud."
"I know, but that's too big of a change to make since he thinks about it so much."
"Such a pig," she said thoughtfully. She could never imagine Obito spending that much time thinking of her in that way. At least not only in that way. He was a man after all. But she knew that Obito considered her in sweet ways, mundane ways, beautiful ways as well. She knew that he thought of her as kindly as she thought of him.
"Not much I can change about that, unfortunately." Hinata told her.
Rin had lived in Guilder for nearly five years now and every other night was nearly the same.
Hidan would come into the room that she shared with his little sister, Princess Hinata and ask for some privacy so that he could bed Rin.
And every other night, after thirty to forty-five minutes of sleeping in her bed naked and alone, he was sure that he'd succeeded before going back to his own room.
Princess Hinata, as it turned out, had a skill of memory alteration.
In fact, she wasn't the Princess of Guilder at all, but had previously lived on the streets alone for several years before being sent to the castle to protect Rin from Hidan and all that implied.
Nearly four and a half years ago, Kakashi had gone to the docks to board his ship and saw a young girl using her skill to convince a vendor that she had already paid for the food that he was handing to her.
"That's an impressive skill you've got," Kakashi told her as he smiled.
"Do I need to convince you that you didn't see anything?" she asked him suspiciously.
He put his hands up and shook his head innocently. "Not at all." He thought for a moment as she took a big bite of her food and sat down. "So, how good is it?"
She looked up from her MLT, confused. "The food?"
"No, no. The skill." He sat next to her as he looked up at his ship and the men boarding it. "Could you, say, convince an entire kingdom that you were– oh, I dunno, their Princess?"
She laughed as she took another bite and chewed thoughtfully. "Actually," she said with her mouth still half full, "I definitely could." She swallowed down her bite before continuing. "I could stand up now and alter everyone here's memories and make them think that they were once mermaids that had lost their fins and the ability to breathe underwater. They'd walk around for the rest of their lives talking about it. 'Shame we can't live in the ocean anymore, isn't it?' 'Yes, a real shame.' 'Alright, well good day to you.' 'Yes, very good day. Tell your wife I said hello.' Which, don't go two villages north, because that's exactly what everyone there thinks," she said with a wide smile. "It was a fun prank to pull on them after I saw them mistreating a small homeless boy. I did set him up with a nice family in the next village over, though. He was happy."
"Wow. That's... truly amazing," he said with a laugh. "So then, how 'bout it?"
"How 'bout what?" she asked with another mouth full of food.
"Well, I have a dear friend that was taken to Guilder last week to be the Princess Bride to Hidan. The Prince of Guilder is an awful person–"
"Oh, I've heard stories," she interrupted.
"Right. Well, my friend is very kind and sweet. She was meant to be the Princess Bride here to our own Prince Obito, but, as I said, that Prince Hidan is a piece of work."
She continued to eat quietly as she tried to put it all together. Once she finished her food she wiped her mouth off with her sleeve and looked back at Kakashi. "So what you're asking me, is if I would be willing to convince my way into the Guilder castle and become the heir Princess and protect your sweet friend while I'm at it? Is that the basic premise?"
Kakashi looked at her nervously and nodded. "That's exactly it."
"And what is your kind little friend's name?"
"Rin. Though, I guess technically, it's Princess Rin, now."
She thought for a few more minutes as she tried to figure out the exact steps she'd need to take. Although, if she ever did get caught, she could easily get out of it. It was just a hassle to have to alter the same memories over and over again. "Alright. I'll do it. It'll be easy enough." She laughed at herself as she stood up. "I honestly can't believe I've never thought of turning myself into royalty." She held her hand out to him. "And who do I owe this brilliant idea to?"
Kakashi stood up and shook her hand. "I'm Kakashi Hatake."
"Hinata Hyuga. And don't worry, Kakashi. Your friend Rin will be safe from Prince Hidan. The Princess of Guilder will make sure of that," she promised with a chuckle.
And so she had. After she arrived in Guilder on the biggest fishing boat she could hijack, she and Rin had become fast friends. Conniving her way into the castle and into the royal family was easy. All she had to do was convince the King to make an announcement to the people with mandatory attendance and the rest was history. And although protecting her from Hidan's near constant advances was quite the chore, she was more than happy to do it if it meant a full belly and warm bed each night. Not to mention the upgrade in clothing. Rags to riches and all that.
And it didn't hurt that Rin truly was so lovely and grateful for the help after her first awful and frightening week alone.
Rin could never thank Kakashi enough for sending Hinata to protect her, but was glad that, at the very least, he and Shanan still had one another. The first week in Guilder had been rough, but Hidan had at least given her some space at the request of his father.
Shanan was the only one that she'd been able to write to a few times. She knew Shanan would have no way to respond, but she didn't ever want her to worry. Hopefully she thanked Kakashi many times for Rin like she asked her to. And hopefully she told Obito how much she'd always love him and that she was safe.
She thought about Obito constantly. She could picture the shattered look on his face so clearly as he fell to his knees. How helpless and heartbroken he'd looked. She despised Hidan so much for doing that to him and she wondered if he'd ever fallen in love with and picked anyone else to be his bride.
She kind of hoped that he had and that they were making each other happy…