The plan

Chapter two

There is a loud banging when Hinata is still half asleep. "I'm up, i'm up" she says sleepily. Trying to get her head up from her pillow. She doesn't get very high and puts it down again. The loud banging still badgering her. "I am up, already. Who ever is in front of my door, you are excused." She turns over so she is lying on her stomach, she turns her head toward the door with her eyes closed. The headache doesn't stop, the loud banging doesn't stop. She tries to open one eye and immediately regrets the effort. The light is unbearable and her headache gets even worse. 'Oh right, I have a hangover.'

She drags herself of the bad and crawls over her floor toward her private bathroom. 'I should decide to stop drinking so this doesn't happen anymore. Or start drinking more so I can get used to feeling this miserable. She grabs one of her mouthwash cups and fills it up with water, downing it instantly. She repeats the process a couple times more, with the last one she adds some aspirin praying that it will start working soon.

She showers and gets ready for the day. She wears her usual ninja outfit, with the shorts and her sleeveless tunic. She goes down the stairs and heads for the breakfast parlour. It is already very late almost eleven. But it seems like someone has left some breakfast for the hangover-recovering kunoichi. It must have been her little sister, she must have heard her come in last night.

She finishes her meal real quickly, not even trying to eat it like a lady. There is no one here to see now anyway. While taking her empty dish toward the kitchen, she sees the kitchen staff preparing everything for the lunch in the conference room. She cleans her dish and walks away but not before being stopped by one of her father's servants, Hikaru.

"Hinata-sama, your father wants you to join him and the elders in the meeting. Please follow me."

'Please don't let this be about last night, I never get drunk. They don't care about that, do they? Those elders drink more sake during business hours than anyone else. But, what else could it be about.' She argues with herself, she starts fidgeting with her hands as she starts to get nervous.

They walk towards a double door. "Hinata-sama, please wait here for a moment while I go in and announce you to the elders." Hikaru explains. He disappears through the door.

"Hiashi-sama and esteemed elders, I have Hinata-sama waiting on the other side of the door."

"Good, let her in please." Hinata hears her father respond. The doors open and Hikaru lets her while leaving the room himself. 'Why is he leaving? Is it that serious?'

"Hello Otou-sama, esteemed elders." Hinata takes a bow, trying to act as usual with her headache still pounding away.

"Hello Hinata, we have asked you to come here to discuss some clan matters that matter to you personally." her father begins.

"What clan matters would matter to me personally, Otou-sama?" Hinata asks hoping with all of her might that this isn't going to be about Naruto and her suitors.

"You were at the Uzumaki-Haruno wedding yesterday, correct?" Knowing her father had little interest in flower arrangements or who caught the garter, she nodded her head and waited for him to continue.

"Myself, and most of us here, know you have always admired the Uzumaki kid in your own way. So I understand it must have been hard. But what is to come will be harder still." Hinata looks at her father and realises it is exactly what she didn't hope for .

"You are now nineteen years of age and while we were quite understanding first about you wanting to wait for the one you admired. It is now a year passed your eighteenth birthday, so we are more than a year behind on getting you ready for your marriage. The marriage will be an arranged one, we have compiled a list of suitors. The one we most prefer are at the top, and the ones we find tolerable at the bottom. I want you to compile a list five men, to come here to meet you personally. If it is the case that you have already made your decision on single name will do as well." Hinata hears all of this, hoping it isn't true.