Hinata gave a large yawn before smoothing out any creases that may have been in her skirt. It was too late to be doing anything, after all that walking earlier on that day, she felt like the living dead. Yet here she was, after midnight, assembling for Sasuke to arrival to eliminate one of the girls.
"Alright girls! Get over here!" Kakashi summoned them over and brought the clipboard up to his mouth in attempt to make himself more heard.
Hinata trotted over to the director and listened attentively to his instructions. He cleared his throat and continued, "What we'll do is you'll line up in a single queue and file into through those curtains into the foyer and line up in a row in front of him. Good luck."
Sakura lined up in the front with Hinata trailing behind the rest of the girls silently. What would happen after she had left? She had no doubt that she would leave after her fight with Sasuke, who would want a meek, passably good looking, snappish girl like her as a wife? She gave an inaudible sigh, this would be so much easier if Sasuke stopped playing mind games with her, one minute he'd be a perfect gentleman, the next a raging pervert/bully.
Several seconds after they had all lined up in an orderly fashion, Sasuke emerged from down the stairs looking positively stunning with a white dress shirt (that Hinata had no doubt cost more than her pay check) and his hair sticking up in its normal duck tail manner. He took a painfully long time to walk down the winding stairs before stopping in front of all of them and giving them a smile that probably would have made thousands of girls swoon with excitement with just one glance.
"Sakura, Ino, Hinata, Temari and Kin, I'd like to point out that you've all been great company, but I regret having to do this, I must ask one of you to leave my house tonight." Hinata snuck a quick peek at the other girls, the only girl with any expression written on her face was Sakura who looked like she was calculating the odds that she wouldn't stay. Which were probably around 0.0001.
A tall man that Hinata recognized as one of the servants around the mansion pulled out a tray and removed the lid, on the tray were four glittering bracelets that looked like they cost…well, a lot.
The girls gave excited 'ooohs' and 'ahhhs'. Sasuke was already buying them jewellery, what girl didn't find that absolutely irresistible? At least, what girl except Hinata who just stared at the bracelets in mild interest. She wasn't one for jewellery, it was impractical and anyone who wore anything remotely around the price of what those bracelets must have cost around the area she worked in were practically screaming, "Mug me!". Though she had to admit, the amount of sparkle on it did make it easy on the eyes.
"The first girl I'd like to call up is…Ino." Ino gave him a look of disgustingly fake surprise and then quickly turned her head to give Sakura a smug look. Sakura looked absolutely infuriated as Sasuke placed a small kiss on Ino's lips, her face was turning pink and her balled fists were shaking.
Sasuke fortunately, or unfortunately, did not see Sakura's phenomenal display of cerise, crimson, scarlet, burgundy, and various other equally charming shades of red, so continued as before, "…Sakura."
Sakura's fury instantly dispelled as she practically skipped up to Sasuke with a broad, unhidden smile plastered on her face and let him give her a quick peck on the lips. Sasuke looked at the three girls standing and smiled, "Temari."
Temari walked over gracefully and gave him an appreciating smile. He gave her a slight smile back and gave her a kiss and the beautiful bracelet. Once Temari had lined up beside Ino and Sakura, Sasuke looked gravely at Hinata and Kin. "Hinata and Kin, will you please step forward."
Reluctantly, Hinata did so and waited for his next empty words that to her seemed so fake that she had no clue why he even bothered. Holding up the bracelet in front of the two, Sasuke continued, "Kin, you're one of the last ones because although you have a great personality, you and I just don't seem to click or have any chemistry." Even though Kin's face was impassive, Hinata could tell that she was hurt by the way her shoulders sagged and her hands were wringing together.
