Kiba walked to their training ground again.. it's been three days and hinata wasn't showing, he was worried so worried that he couldn't spend his days as usual, the sound of the tree being punched woke him "oi shi-" shino wasn't there instead the person he had been looking for was there standing with wide eyes looking at him "ah, kiba-kun" he didn't waste any other minute to fly to her "ki..kiba-kun?" She was sumo surprised by his sudden hold "I knew about what happened?" Her eyes went wider she wasn't ready to discuss this with anyone was it Shikamaru? Impossible then who?... how could she forgot Naruto's loud mouth kiba stepped back still holding her by her shoulders "are you ok?" He looked at her face searching for a trace of tears.
But she avoided his eyes turning back to the tree "I'm ok kiba-kun, thank you" she was pretending and he knew it kiba was about to say more before another person joined them as quietly as he was he grabbed kiba's shoulder trying to hold him back from asking more "the hell? When did you get here?" Shino fixed his glasses I was here before you but you didn't saw me , that because—" knowing what was coming kiba didn't had the time so he raised his hand "stop! So you met her before me?" Calmly shino nodded his head not knowing of the fire inside kiba "since when?!" This time hinata spoke "just few hours ago" kiba sighed looking at her back for a minutes ,he could see she had no energy as usual "then are you going tonight?" She looked confused wasn't she supposed to be disappointed what was going? "Where to?" Kiba and shino shared a confused stare at her she did too. "The celebration?!" More confusion were showing on her face "what celebration?" By that moment they weren't confused they were shocked did she forgot or what? "The celebration of the hyuga's new leader" it took her long minutes-to realize what was going on the memories of her father and hanabi's visit when she fought with Naruto they were talking about that but she was thinking of something else she mumbled in shocked "Hanabi-chan!" She gasped before running out of the training ground.
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She huffed as she hurried to the hyuga's clan mansion, this was her sister's day the day she should be standing by her sister from the first minutes of the morning and yet here it was noon and she didn't know about that, she was drowning in her selfishness ignoring everyone around her, now hanabi will misunderstood her that her elder sister wasn't happy, that she hater her but no hanabi was a part of her yet here she was running late in the most important day of her sister, "oneechan gomenasai" the memories of her sister beginning for her forgiveness way long ago played inside her head as if they were last night as if it happened before minutes and everything came back to her like that night, feeling guilty for not training when she was playing the good wife at home climbed inside her, the way she acted towards her sister she should have tried harder now her sister was feeling alone and her teammates kiba and shino they hated her sister and she was the one who made them too, how did she turned like this? And when? The tears fell on her cheeks washing away her mask if happiness and replace it with new face she never thought it would come back again.
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Looking at herself in the mirror she asked herself the same question what did they saw to choose her to be the next leader of the clan, still she had no answer. She didn't thought this day would come so soon, No matter how many times she thought of it, it seemed so far but now she looked at her again ...she wasn't ready, But she never dared to say it. Hanabi closed her eyes picturing her sister in this fancy kimono, it would have suited her better than her, hanabi didn't open her eyes the picture looked so happy than reality hinata was standing smiling at her reflection in the mirror after hanabi helped her to dress and she couldn't help but to imagine him too, there neji was standing beside them rushing them so they could come out to the guests, this was supposed to be the big day for her and whole clan and yet tears build in her eyes then she opened them to let the tears rolled over her cheeks if not now then she will have to handle the pain of them later, hanabi looked at herself in the mirror there her reflection looking beautiful outside but not inside, no one was standing beside her she was there alone people might thought that was strength handling everything alone but she too wanted someone to be around her to hold her hand but no she had to go through all of these alone.
The door behind her opened and then as a miracle her sister was staring at her trying to catch her breaths tears were running down her face, hanabi was shocked for minutes she looked at the mirror again then looked behind making sure that her mirror wasn't tricking her, It was true hyuga hinata was standing there and for the first time since the war ended hanabi decided to let everything out in front of her sister she decided to go back to the old hanabi "Onechan" her soft trembling voice as she called her broke her heart and she ran to her sister holding her in her arms hiding her face in her chest
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Kakashi looked at the mirror this yukata was perfect at least she didn't make the same mistake as before, sakura looked at him proudly it was fitting and the dark blue suited him she had imagined him in all the different colors and he was so fitting in everything so it was hard to pick but this one suited him perfectly, his height, his wide shoulders his muscular arms fitted "You look good" it came out of her mouth suddenly and without her intention, he looked at her then back at himself "I..I..I meant the yukata since i was the one who picked him it was looking good if it was shizunu or anyone els—" his laughter cut her blabbering it was enough to make her go day dream again "I didn't ask sakura-chan" right how stupid of her now he would misunderstood her she cleared her throat "then let's go" he nodded and headed out.
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She had putted her last touch on her sister's face and then she looked at her... beautiful was the only word describing her, hanabi had pretty eyes ,long lashes and they held something inside them no one have it. She stared at her innocently yet they were challenging and hard. "Beautiful, hanabi-chan" hanabi looked at herself again in the mirror, before she commented the door behind them opened revealing ko "hanabi-sama are you ready?" Hanabi nodded her head then walked out to their guests.
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His eyes were fixed on her from behind his glass, she was heavenly beautiful the way she walked looking at no one but her father like how she was ,this was his favorite scene from the whole celebration he didn't care about anyone else this was his first time he came to these things. But mentioning her name was enough for him to drop everything and come here.
The warmth he felt inside him when she looked to her left, to his direction he felt like seven years old meeting their hero for the first time he wanted to stand to steal a glance from her but they weren't in the academy anymore, they are adults now.
So he did nothing but sipping from his sake and stare at the new leader of the hyuga clan.
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Sakura was sitting beside kakashi she didn't want this to be over, she wanted to thank every member of the hyuga clan, she was there beside whispering in his ear to take her chance to smell his scent, taking the chance to hear his chuckles wherever she said something to him but her happiness ended when an anbu showed up whispering in his ears. Kakashi stood suddenly excusing himself then looked at Sakura before he said anything sakura spoke "it's alright kakashi-sensei you're busy I understand" he looked at her confused then sighed "Sakura they need you too" sakura blanked at him for a minute then realized why they needed her she gasped before she ran off with them cursing their new visitor to no end.
